Re: [squid-users] Problem restarting/stopping squid

2010/9/22 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> On 23/09/10 03:06, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>
>> 2010/9/16 Amos Jeffries<squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
>>>
>>> On 17/09/10 01:46, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2010/9/16 Peter Albrecht<albrecht_at_opensourceservices.de>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sergio,
>>>>>
>>>>>> I use squid squid-2.6.STABLE21-3.el5 on CentOS 5.4. The problem is
>>>>>> that squid can't be restarted and "rotate" isnt working, I mean log
>>>>>> rotating is done but I have to start  the service by hand.
>>>>>>
>>
>> I think that I found the cause of problem. Since I was rotating on a
>> different times each log, only executed "squid -k rotate" when it
>> rotated the store.log, but it didn't when it made the access.log and
>> cache log. So I've append
>> postrotate
>>       /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate
>>     endscript
>>
>> at the end of both access.log and cache.log sections.
>>
>
> Careful that this does not make squid overwrite log data.
>

Why do you say that? Could that happen? Stupid question: What does
'squid -k rotate' really do?

Thanks in advance

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