Re: [squid-users] "squid -k rotate" and redirectors

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:37, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sunday 08 December 2002 07.08, Илья Шипицин wrote:
>
> > when I issue "squid -k rotate" the only thing I expect is to
> > re-open logs. No more.
> >
> > 1) Is that correct that external helpers also restarted ?
>
> Yes, because stderr from the helpers are connected to cache.log.

The external_logger project on devel.squid-cache.org is designed to
address that. I"ve just broken it :[ but will fix it very soon :}.

It hands out a fd to a log helper pipe, which is kept open forever, even
past rotates, so non log helpers don't need to restart on squid -k
rotate.

Rob