Re: problems with squid -k signals

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Scott Hess wrote:

> OK, I've seen this same notion go by a couple times (using squid with
> RunCache, versus without). At some point or another, I saw reference to the
> notion that Squid could monitor and restart itself (which makes some sense,
> as there appears to be two Squid-related processes on my system, excluding
> dnsservers and kin). Yet the documentation seems to indicate using
> RunCache.
>
> What's the story? Does Squid need RunCache these days? Or can it handle
> such things entirely internally?

Squid does not need RunCache as of version 2.2. If you just type

        % squid

It will background itself and fork a child process. The parent process
makes sure there is always a child process running. The parent will log
messages to your syslog every time it starts a new child process.

Duane W.
Received on Mon Jul 12 1999 - 02:51:13 MDT