[squid-users] automate flushing of cache

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Christy
Hi all, Wondering if anyone has an automated cache-flushing script which can be run as a cron job? I know the system calls to actually flush the cache, but my problem is that squid often takes a while to actually shut itself down. I want to flush the entire cache every day at midnight. I want

Re: [squid-users] automate flushing of cache

2006-08-07 Thread James Wakefield
Jim Christy wrote: But often it runs so quick that squid doesn't get chance to shutdown before the script tries to restart it. Any suggestions? Thanks Jim You could use ps (grepped appropriately) in a loop, with a sleep at the end of each iteration to check if squid's shut down yet. If oth

Re: [squid-users] automate flushing of cache

2006-08-07 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
mån 2006-08-07 klockan 11:56 +0100 skrev Jim Christy: > Wondering if anyone has an automated cache-flushing script which can > be run as a cron job? why? It's maintained automatically. You should not need to flush the cache. > I know the system calls to actually flush the cache, but my problem

Re: [squid-users] automate flushing of cache

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Christy
forgot the reply all. squid -k check actually yields nothing. does it need to be enabled in the initial compile? squid's definitely running. Thanks Jim On 8/7/06, Jim Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Henrik, I want to flush the cache daily to make sure i'm not getting stale data from th

Re: [squid-users] automate flushing of cache

2006-08-07 Thread Jim Christy
Think i see - i'm really looking for a return value of nothing - which shows squid is running? so when it stops i get: $ squid -k check squid: ERROR: No running copy Cheers Jim On 8/7/06, Jim Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: forgot the reply all. squid -k check actually yields nothing. do

Re: [squid-users] automate flushing of cache

2006-08-07 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
mån 2006-08-07 klockan 12:37 +0100 skrev Jim Christy: > forgot the reply all. > > squid -k check actually yields nothing. does it need to be enabled in > the initial compile? > > squid's definitely running. then -k check is silent and returns success, just to keep matters simple. When Squid is