Hallo, david, Du meintest am 09.06.11: >> Brute force (under a linux distribution): >> >> killall squid >> >> (if you are curious: repeat the command) > actually, you do need to repeat the command. Squid doesn't stop > immediatly when it gets the standard kill signal (15), it does some > sort of graceful shutdown that can take a significant amount of time > to actually take place. [...] > what I do is to do killall squid in a loop until the killall command > returns an error that there is no process to kill. Ok - I've seen this behaviour too but haven't yet studied it deeply. Thank you! Viele Gruesse! Helmut