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5.11 Exercises

  • Use Squid's -s option and verify that its messages are saved by your syslog daemon.

  • Run squid -X -d9, and examine some of the debugging messages.

  • Write a shell script that stops Squid but doesn't exit until all Squid processes exit.

  • Play with squid -k rotate. What happens if you have tail -f cache.log running when you rotate the log files?



    		Preface
    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Getting Squid
    		Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
    		Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
    		Chapter 5. Running Squid
    		5.1 Squid Command-Line Options
    		5.2 Check Your Configuration File for Errors
    		5.3 Initializing Cache Directories
    		5.4 Testing Squid in a Terminal Window
    		5.5 Running Squid as a Daemon Process
    		5.6 Boot Scripts
    		5.7 A chroot Environment
    		5.8 Stopping Squid
    		5.9 Reconfiguring a Running Squid Process
    		5.10 Rotating the Log Files
    		5.11 Exercises
    		Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
    		Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
    		Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
    		Chapter 9. Interception Caching
    		Chapter 10. Talking to Other Squids
    		Chapter 11. Redirectors
    		Chapter 12. Authentication Helpers
    		Chapter 13. Log Files
    		Chapter 14. Monitoring Squid
    		Chapter 15. Server Accelerator Mode
    		Chapter 16. Debugging and Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. Config File Reference
    		Appendix B. The Memory Cache
    		Appendix C. Delay Pools
    		Appendix D. Filesystem Performance Benchmarks
    		Appendix E. Squid on Windows
    		Appendix F. Configuring Squid Clients