Re: LOG Files

Whatever happened to 'squid -k rotate'?

D

John Heaton wrote:

> > Read the FAQ - there is a section which says that sending a SIGUSR1 to
> > the squid process, as in "kill -USR1 squid-pid", will do this.Of course
> > you have to use something to get squids PID, like the following
> >
> > pid=`ps -e | grep -w squid | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'`
>
> far simpler to make use of the following in squid.conf
>
> # TAG: pid_filename
> # A pathname to write the process-id to. There is no default.
> #pid_filename
> pid_filename /opt/Squid/squid.pid
>
> and then do summat like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> PATH=/:/usr/bin
> export PATH
>
> kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /opt/Squid/squid.pid`
>
> on a cron entry:
>
> 0 0 * * * /opt/Squid/bin/RotateCache
>
> John

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