Hallo, Tom, Du meintest am 09.06.11: >> Brute force (under a linux distribution): >> >> killall squid >> >> (if you are curious: repeat the command) [Toppost and fullquote reordered] > killall (without any parameter) sends a sigterm (kill -15) to the > squid-processes. This command kill's indeed all sqBut this does not > bring squid to die and then send the mail. This command does just > kill the processes. Please: what is the difference between "kill all squid-processes" and "bring squid to die"? Sending a mail is another problem. Viele Gruesse! Helmut