Re: [squid-users] Squid not running, PID exists

On Fri, May 23, 2008, Nick Duda wrote:
> When squid is running, /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid exists
> If I kill squid, the pid file still exists.
> If I restart squid it just overwrites the squid.pid with the new PID
>
> Anyway I can tell squid when its not running to ditch the PID file (without relying on scripts and cron jobs to test for this?)

Squid should tidy up after itself. If its not then .. well, how are you
killing Squid? kill -9?

adrian

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> - Nick

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