Re: Stopping SQUID

From: Duane Wessels <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:34:21 -0700

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:

> In recent times we have had to stop our server many times due to power
> outages during rebuilding. Every time we have found that a simple 'shutdown
> now' hangs when trying to kill SQUID. I have found that I have to use -n (and -
> h to stop the reboot) to get it to go down.
> We are running Mandrake 6 and Squid2.2 Stable4.
> Does this sound like a Squid problem or a Linux problem? (or even normal
> behaviour?)

Before you shutdown the system, its better to shutdown Squid cleanly:

        % squid -k shutdown
        % tail -f /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log

Then wait until you see "exiting normally" It might take 30-60 seconds.

...then halt your system.
Received on Mon Mar 13 2000 - 15:38:52 MST

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