I find: squid -k reconfigure to be effective. Ross -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reedstrm@xxxxxxxx Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166 The Connexions Project http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665 Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005 GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:36:25PM +0300, Roland Roland wrote: > Hello, > > this might be common knowledge to some of you.. > but as I'm still fine tuning my squid setup. I need to restart squid for > the new changes in squid.conf to take effect. > needless to say with each restart browsing stops for about 30 seconds or so > till squid boots up again... > is there any way to force the changes to take effect without affecting > users?