Re: [squid-users] unlinked squid process

> Thanks,
>
> that is very interesting,
> the ownership of swap.state on all servers are squid,
> because it is pipe the echo output so it shouldn't change
> the permission.
>
> however was wondering if clearing swap.state is the way of
> clearing cache !!!!
>
> I was checking the squid that comes with Centos,
> it does not have any flush option, probably flush is a
> bad idea ?

Yes. Its not possible yet without destroying and rebuilding the entire fs.
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/OperatingSquid#head-997ff43f2b62743af566fb32f62e8ed512f49be2

>
> Quoting Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007, squid@unixplanet.biz wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> we are using SQUID 2.6.STABLE13
>>>
>>> we usually restarting squid by flushing it
>>> service squid restart
>>> service squid flush
>>>
>>> flush)
>>> $0 stop
>>> sleep 2
>>> echo -n 'Flushing squid cache: '
>>
>>> echo "" > /var/spool/squid/cache/swap.state
>>
>> This line isn't flushing the cache and its probably creating a
>> root-owned
>> swap.state file thats causing your problem.
>>

Seeing as how badly that was treating squid.
Please include the rest of the script, so we can check the other operations.

Amos
Received on Tue Oct 23 2007 - 17:43:42 MDT