> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007, squid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
