Re: [squid-users] Squid Unable to Serve While Rebuilding Disk Cache After Unclean Shutdown

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Adam Vollrath wrote:

> Is there a way I can configure squid to ignore an inconsistent cache? Or
> have it somehow serve requests while rebuilding? I could add something
> like `rm /var/spool/squid3/*` to the init script, but that'd be terribly
> kludgey.

I think you'll have to live with kludgey.

I'd recommend something like this, though, to minimize the delay getting
squid up and running:

   mv /var/spool/squid3 /var/spool/squid3-corrupt-`date +%s`
   mkdir /var/spool/squid3
   rm -rf /var/spool/squid3-corrupt* &
   # ...proceed with normal startup process

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