>From squid.conf.documented: --- SNIP --- # TAG: cache_mgr # Email-address of local cache manager who will receive # mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster." #Default: # cache_mgr webmaster --- SNAP --- As I understand, squid will send a mail to the defined mail-recipient, if squid recognize that something is hardly wrong and so he will die. An hereby my question: How can I force squid to die (not "kill -9" or "kill -15" because this will kill squid immediately respectively shutdown squid commonly) to check that this mail will be sent? Many thanks. Tom 2011/6/10 Helmut Hullen <Hullen@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 >
