On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 21:36 +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? > I would agree with others in using 'squid -k reconfigure'. However, I always run 'squid -k parse' beforehand, just to make sure the config file is valid. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001