Re: Making start/stop idempotent

http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2599

On 31/10/2008, at 3:59 AM, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 00:58 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>> On tor, 2008-10-30 at 10:03 +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> Hmm, good point. My aim was just start and stop. Seem reasonable to
>>> just limit it to those two?
>>
>> Yes. And maybe maybe rotate.
>
> Perhaps rotate should continue to fail. Those who do not like that,
> can
> always do something like "!check || rotate" in their cron jobs, right?
>
> In general, an operation that cannot accomplish its goal should
> fail. I
> am not going to fight against shutdown pretending that it has shutdown
> Squid, but faking rotate is more dangerous than convenient, IMO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex.
>
>

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