Re: stopping and starting squid

Thanks for the replies,

Apart from that however, what I actually want is to stop the squid process itself so that
my clients would not be able to access the Internet when I want to prevent a network
traffic. I tried 'squid -k shutdown before but still my users could access the
Internet. Anywhere else I need to look at?

Joel

Justin Willoughby wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:43:42PM +0800, Joel Taqueban wrote:
> > I tried to run the script though as root from /etc/rc.d/init.d but still the squid
> > process didn't stop. Anywhere else I need to look at? What I'm currently doing
> > at the moment is whenever I do make changes to the squid.conf file I still have to
> > reboot my linux box before the new entry is recognized. Is there a better way of
> > stopping the squid process from command line (after it was brought up by the reboot
> > process) and start it again?
> >
> > Again, thanks and awaiting for reply
> >
>
> If all you want is to have Squid re-read its configuration file just do a
>
> /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -k reconfigure
>
> This is all I do.
>
> - justin
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Received on Tue Apr 11 2000 - 06:38:22 MDT