[Slackbuilds-users] Squid: rc.squid doesn't stop Squid correctly

[xgizzmo at slackbuilds.org]

On Thursday 06 October 2011 03:47:48 Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 05/10/2011 13:48, Helmut Hullen a écrit :
> >
> > "squid" needs some time for shutting down - are these processes still
> > running after (about) 2 minutes?
> >
> 
> OK, I investigated a little bit, and I found a couple of reasons why 
> Squid wouldn't shutdown correctly.
> 
> A peek in /var/log/squid/cache.log indicated this:
> 
> ...
> WARNING: Could not write pid file
> ...
> 
> So I explicitly defined a PID file in squid.conf:
> 
> ...
> pid_filename /var/run/squid/squid.pid
> ...
> 
> Now the PID file is written correctly, but still, running:
> 
> # /etc/rc.d/rc.squid stop
> 
> wouldn't stop the squid processes. Took a peek in the rc.file, and here 
> it is:
> 
> --8<--------------------------------------------------------
> squid_stop() {
>    COUNTDOWN=$(awk '/^shutdown_lifetime/ {print $2}' $SQUIDCFG)
>    [ -z "$COUNTDOWN" ] && COUNTDOWN=30
> 
>    echo -n "Shutting down Squid in $COUNTDOWN seconds:  "
>    $SQUIDCMD -k shutdown 2> /dev/null
>    while $SQUIDCMD -k check 2> /dev/null ; do
>      sleep 1
>      echo -n .
>      COUNTDOWN=$[ $COUNTDOWN - 1 ]
>      if [ $COUNTDOWN -le 0 ] ; then
>        $SQUIDCMD -k interrupt 2> /dev/null
>        sleep 1
>        break
>      fi
>    done
>    echo
> }
> --8<--------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now I added the following option to squid.conf:
> 
> shutdown_lifetime 30 seconds
> 
>  From here, it got parsed correctly, and now everything is working fine.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Niki

I can not reproduce any of these problems on a clean system with a 
fresh build and install of squid.

--dsomero