Re: running from inittab

Cormack@cardiff.ac.uk said:
} We've had no problems, except when we want to shut the cache down, and
} Unix is determined to restart it :-)

This is my solution to this problem...

This runs on a Linux system (Red Hat distribution - Sys V init), with
squid started from inittab, but with an enable/disable script run from the
normal startup stuff.

The squid.sh is run by init, and is adapted from an example Duane Wessels
passed to me long ago. It loops in a sleep if the config file cannot be
found or a disable flag file is present. Otherwise it exec's squid using
Wietse's chrootuid to set the UID (I don't chroot it - I just prefer
chrootuid over su for launching code).

The squid.init is run from the rc3.d startup stuff in standard Sys V ways.
 On shutdown it signals squid having set the flag file to prevent it
restarting. This allows the cache to be shutdown and kept down by running
the script.

This is written for a specific setup - you may wish to change things a
fair bit for your configuration.

        Nigel.

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