Re: Stopping SQUID

Thanks for that,

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> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:
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> > In recent times we have had to stop our server many times due to power
> > outages during rebuilding. Every time we have found that a simple
> > 'shutdown now' hangs when trying to kill SQUID. I have found that I have
> > to use -n (and - h to stop the reboot) to get it to go down. We are
> > running Mandrake 6 and Squid2.2 Stable4. Does this sound like a Squid
> > problem or a Linux problem? (or even normal behaviour?)
>
> Before you shutdown the system, its better to shutdown Squid cleanly:
>
> % squid -k shutdown
> % tail -f /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log
>
> Then wait until you see "exiting normally" It might take 30-60 seconds.
>
> ...then halt your system.

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Simon Bryan                    sbryan@olmc.nsw.edu.au
Information Technology Manager sbryan@mpx.com.au
OLMC Parramatta