Re: [squid-users] "squid -k rotate" and redirectors

On Sunday 08 December 2002 07.08, Илья Шипицин wrote:

> when I issue "squid -k rotate" the only thing I expect is to
> re-open logs. No more.
>
> 1) Is that correct that external helpers also restarted ?

Yes, because stderr from the helpers are connected to cache.log.

> 2) Which signal is passed to external helpers ? SIGTERM, SIGHUP or
> what ? How squid will behave if I catch that signal within
> redirector ?

There is no signal.

Squid closes the connection to the helper (stdin).

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Dec 08 2002 - 09:38:02 MST