About the "null" thing on reloading squid.

[Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i have found something about it.
it happends only using one method.

i am using a init.d script:

service squid3 reload
or the same
/etc/init.d/squid3 reload

and then after that im getting the (null)://
error page.

so i tried using another method of reloading\reconfiguring the proxy for 
another purpose.
(i started using a ram drive for small objects to make them load faster.)

i was using the command
squid3 -k reconfigure
and it seems to be ok.

my init.d script is on the buttom of the mail.

another question i have is:
is there like a good way to benefit from the ramfs drive?

a way to make most small objects go there?

i have tried putting them one obove the other on the list. of cache.
and nothing got into the ramfs but when i used round robin algorithm for 
the cache dir it seems like the proxy using it.



the init.d script:
#############start#######################
! /bin/sh
#
# squid3                Startup script for the SQUID HTTP proxy-cache.
#
# Version:      @(#)squid3.rc  1.0  07-Jul-2006  luigi@xxxxxxxxxx
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          squid3
# Required-Start:    $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Should-Start:      $named
# Should-Stop:       $named
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Squid HTTP Proxy version 3.x
### END INIT INFO

NAME=squid3
DESC="Squid HTTP Proxy 3.x"
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/squid3
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
CONFIG=/etc/squid3/squid.conf
SQUID_ARGS="-YC -f $CONFIG"
RAMFS=$RAMFS

[ ! -f /etc/default/squid3 ] || . /etc/default/squid3

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0

ulimit -n 65535

find_cache_dir () {
        w="     " # space tab
        res=`sed -ne '
                
s/^'$1'['"$w"']\+[^'"$w"']\+['"$w"']\+\([^'"$w"']\+\).*$/\1/p;
                t end;
                d;
                :end q' < $CONFIG`
        [ -n "$res" ] || res=$2
        echo "$res"
}

find_cache_type () {
        w="     " # space tab
        res=`sed -ne '
                s/^'$1'['"$w"']\+\([^'"$w"']\+\).*$/\1/p;
                t end;
                d;
                :end q' < $CONFIG`
        [ -n "$res" ] || res=$2
        echo "$res"
}

start () {
        $RAMFS clean
        $RAMFS mount
        $RAMFS restore

        cache_dir=`find_cache_dir cache_dir /var/spool/squid3`
        cache_type=`find_cache_type cache_dir ufs`

        #
    # Create spool dirs if they don't exist.
    #
        if [ "$cache_type" = "coss" -a -d "$cache_dir" -a ! -f 
"$cache_dir/stripe" ] || [ "$cache_type" != "coss" -a -d "$cache_dir" -a 
! -d "$cache_dir/00" ]
        then
                log_warning_msg "Creating $DESC cache structure"
                $DAEMON -z
        fi

        umask 027
        ulimit -n 65535


        cd $cache_dir
        start-stop-daemon --quiet --start \
                --pidfile $PIDFILE \
                --exec $DAEMON -- $SQUID_ARGS < /dev/null
        return $?
}

stop () {

        PID=`cat $PIDFILE 2>/dev/null`
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
        #
        #       Now we have to wait until squid has _really_ stopped.
        #
        sleep 2
        if test -n "$PID" && kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null
        then
                log_action_begin_msg " Waiting"
                cnt=0
                while kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null
                do
                        cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
                        if [ $cnt -gt 24 ]
                        then
                                log_action_end_msg 1
                                return 1
                        fi
                        sleep 5
                        log_action_cont_msg ""
                done
                log_action_end_msg 0
                return 0
        else
                return 0
        fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
        if start ; then
                log_end_msg $?
        else
                log_end_msg $?
        fi
        ;;
    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"


        if stop ; then
                log_end_msg $?
        else
                log_end_msg $?
        fi
        $RAMFS dump
        $RAMFS umount
        $RAMFS clean

        ;;
    reload|force-reload)
        log_action_msg "Reloading $DESC configuration files"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 \
                --pidfile $PIDFILE --quiet --exec $DAEMON
        log_action_end_msg 0
        ;;
    restart)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
        stop
        if start ; then
                log_end_msg $?
        else
                log_end_msg $?
        fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME 
{start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart}"
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

exit 0



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Thanks Eliezer