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<h3 class="section">2.3 Stopping Polipo and getting it to reload</h3>
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<p>Polipo will shut down cleanly if it receives <code>SIGHUP</code>,
<code>SIGTERM</code> or <code>SIGINT</code> signals; this will normally happen
when a Polipo in the foreground receives a <code>^C</code> key press, when
your system shuts down, or when you use the <code>kill</code> command with
no flags.  Polipo will then write-out all its in-memory data to disk
and quit.
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<p>If Polipo receives the <code>SIGUSR1</code> signal, it will write out all
the in-memory data to disk (but won&rsquo;t discard them), reopen the log
file, and then reload the forbidden URLs file (see <a href="Forbidden.html#Forbidden">Forbidden</a>).
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<p>Finally, if Polipo receives the <code>SIGUSR2</code> signal, it will write
out all the in-memory data to disk and discard as much of the memory
cache as possible.  It will then reopen the log file and reload the
forbidden URLs file.
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