Re: [squid-users] "proper" way to restart squid on Ubuntu 10.04

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:55:37 -0400, GravyFace <gravyface_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Have squid up and running (from the Ubuntu repo, not sure the version
> at the moment but assume it's the latest stable) with a whitelist
> (/etc/squid/whitelist) and all is well.
>
> Today I went to add a domain to the whitelist, assumed that the squid
> process needed to be restarted, so I issued: sudo /etc/init.d/squid
> restart. Some blah blah re: using upstart instead of the "old" init,
> but below it said it could not restart.
>
> I could run: sudo /etc/init.d/squid start or sudo service squid start
> after and sure enough it would start ok, but just that restart didn't
> seem to work.
>
> Does editing the whitelist file (or any conf file) stop squid?

No. Squid does not (yet) monitor it's data files for changes.

> How
> should I be restarting it?

init.d is normal. Your system seems to have been converted to upstart
though if that "blah blah" is what I think it is.

Either if those tow should be fine. Whichever was used to start Squid in
the first place is best.

Amos
Received on Tue Sep 28 2010 - 23:49:22 MDT