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Duane wrote:

> n8walker@bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz.com writes:
[...]
> >Is there another way to check to see if its "running" and if so, 
> >any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> For one, you can use a script like scripts/RunCache to restart
> Squid if it exits.
> 
> Also, you can run 'squid -kc' to see if Squid is already running.
> It reads the squid.pid file and will tell you (via the exit status) if
> that processid is running.    e.g.:
> 
>     bin/squid -kc || echo "Squid is not running"

Right. But we try to test the functionality of our squids. We
generally use netcat to get some cache-information - eg.
the server_list. Thus we see, whether our caches do react.
If they don´t they´re killed and restarted - which does
not happen very often.

By
Töns

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