Squid spewing new proxy authenticator processes

Squid is constantly spawning new proxy authenticators for no apparent
reason, I'm not sure why this is, recently I changed the authentication
process from the standard pam_auth program to a script (following)

#!/bin/bash
while :
do
read -r ARGA ARGB;
if (grep $ARGA /var/www/htdocs/blocker/acldeny > /dev/null)
then
{
echo "ERR";
}
else
{
exec echo $ARGA $ARGB | /usr/local/sbin/pamauth;
}
fi;
done

this is a fairly elementary hack which I've used with some sucess on
numerous other sites in order to implement a single user per line
blocklist that gets checked before a user is passed onto the main
authentication process, except in this particular example it appears to
fail very badly by spawning itself two hundred + times after about 5
minutes running properly.

What can be done about this?

Thankyou

Eric
Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 20:04:29 MST