A co-worker of mine made a nice little script to make reloading of the default VCL that Varnish uses a bit easier. Not wanting to telnet or use varnishadm manually, this script does the trick. This was taken from http://kristian.blog.linpro.no/2009/02/18/easy-reloading-of-varnish-vcl/:
#!/bin/bash # Reload a varnish config # Author: Kristian Lyngstol FILE="/etc/varnish/default.vcl" # Hostname and management port # (defined in /etc/default/varnish or on startup) HOSTPORT="localhost:6082" NOW=`date +%s` error() { echo 1>&2 "Failed to reload $FILE." exit 1 } varnishadm -T $HOSTPORT vcl.load reload$NOW $FILE || error varnishadm -T $HOSTPORT vcl.use reload$NOW || error echo Current configs: varnishadm -T $HOSTPORT vcl.list
