Re: [squid-users] Squid takes too long to stop.

fre 2006-08-25 klockan 09:24 -0700 skrev Jim John:
> Hi all. We have squid set up for transparency using shorewall, but it takes
> too long to stop. Can we simply direct traffic away from squid using
> shorewall before we stop squid instead of afterwards?

Yes, assuming you are doing transparent interception using iptables NAT.

> Is there another way
> to stop squid faster and safer because our users lose connection while squid
> is stopping, which takes 2 minutes or so.

See shutdown_lifetime.

> This also happens for reload when we have squidGuard child processes running under squid. Thanks.

What is a "reload"?

Squid know how to stop, start, rotate logs and reconfigure.

Regards
Henrik