Re: [squid-users] chrooting: why and how?

From: Joe Cooper <joe@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:59:24 -0500

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Joe Cooper wrote:
>
>> resolve.conf) that Squid relies on (it could be that shared libraries
>> are pulled in before Squid chroots, and so they might not be
>> needed--Henrik wrote the chroot code I think, or at least maintains it
>> now, maybe he'll chime in with clarification).
>
>
> If you use the chroot directive in squid.conf then only logs, cache and
> a dev/null node is minimally required within the chroot directory
> structure. It is also a good idea to set up a syslog socket within the
> chroot (man syslogd).
>
> The squid configuration file and any data referenced from there should
> be outside of the chroot directory, and unless you use any helpers no
> libraries is required either.

Out of curiosity: without squid.conf in the chroot, how does a -k
reconfigure work?
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 14:59:28 MDT

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