Re: [squid-users] Momentary interruption to proxy services when reconfiguring SQUID

One option is to upgrade to Squid-2.4. There helpers are restarted each
time you rotate the logs, not only on reconfigure..

We use this to have helpers restarted on change, and have logfile_rotate
set to 0 (we instead use the logrotate program to rotate and compress
logs).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
John Matthews wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
>    I am using squid v2.3 STABLE 4 with SquidGuard v1.1.4. When I change my
> squidGuard redirector configuration then I need to HUP squid for squidGuard
> to update itself. The problem is that there is a momentary interruption to
> proxying while the HUP takes place (about 2secs on my PC) during which time
> incoming HTTP requests will fail. The squidGuard manual hints that there
> might be some way to HUP the redirector without having to HUP squid, however
> trying this renders squid inoperable until it is itself HUP'd. Has anyone
> come across this problem or know of a way to avoid it ?
> 
> John Matthews