How To Restart Squid In Linux

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Todays topic is going to cover a very useful topic of squid. if you have squid running on your redhat, fedora or centos server, its often useful knowing what is the shell terminal command for restarting your squid cache server.

the console command to restart your squid server is:
SHELL COMMAND:

you should get something like this:
[root - at - localhost ~]# squid -n -d 1 -d
2009/11/30 12:11:06| starting squid cache version 2.6.stable12 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2009/11/30 12:11:06| process id 2613
2009/11/30 12:11:06| with 1024 file descriptors available
2009/11/30 12:11:06| using epoll for the io loop
2009/11/30 12:11:06| dns socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32770, fd 6
2009/11/30 12:11:06| adding nameserver 192.168.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf
2009/11/30 12:11:06| user-agent logging is disabled.
2009/11/30 12:11:06| referer logging is disabled.
2009/11/30 12:11:06| unlinkd pipe opened on fd 12
2009/11/30 12:11:06| swap maxsize 102400 kb, estimated 7876 objects
2009/11/30 12:11:06| target number of buckets: 393
2009/11/30 12:11:06| using 8192 store buckets
2009/11/30 12:11:06| max mem size: 8192 kb
2009/11/30 12:11:06| max swap size: 102400 kb
2009/11/30 12:11:06| local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec
2009/11/30 12:11:06| /var/spool/squid/00