On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:55:37 -0400, GravyFace <gravyface@xxxxxxxxx> 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
