RE: [squid-users] Squid crashing

fre 2003-08-01 klockan 13.50 skrev daniel.jarboe@custserv.com:

> So let me make sure I understand... if squid needs to bind to
> priveledged ports (like 80) it needs to be started by root, and soon
> after grabbing the ports will setuid to cache_effective_user specified
> in squid.conf. In this configuration, because squid was started as root
> and runs as squid, no cores can be generated due to kernel security?

Correct.

> If so, that's unfortunate, the reason we bind to port 80 is because this is
> meant to replace an NT proxy server that was configured for 80 (avoid
> touching clients).

You can always use NAT to remap what the client connects to... making
clients who attempt to connect to port 80 automatically connect to Squid
on port 3128 instead.

Regards
Henrik

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