From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: If you have to do a lot of restarts/reloads of squid (like changing the configuration on the fly for a network appliance) the current initscript will run multiple copies of squid due it's improper pidfile handling. Those extra instances will fail with "Cannot open HTTP port" or "No copy running". Patch supplied. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ./squid restart ; ./squid restart ; ./squid restart Additional info:
Created attachment 31938 [details] bugfix
Added in 2.4.STABLE7-1; thanks!