Re: How to start squid?

Peter> A solution to this is to say attempt to access the cachemanager
Peter> "status" data or some such... no response means that the cache is
Peter> either dead or zombied... so kill it and restart.

Duane has written a cool `poll.pl' script, which can poll the cachemgr
from cron. It's at:

    http://www.nlanr.net/Cache/Vitals/

I've hacked mine to track daily bandwidth consumed by HTTP and FTP.
Should be easy to hack and check if Squid is alive and serving requests.

Jon.

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