Re: [squid-users] Problems with effective user

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:25:29 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Lloyd Parkes wrote:

> I've got my squid 2.5 STABLE10 configured to run with an effective user
> of 'squid' for all the normal reasons. This only seems to half work.
> Only one of the two squid processes runs as 'squid' the parent still
> runs as 'root'

This is the way it should be.

> This is a problem because now the 'squid -k' commands don't work. 'squid
> -k' switches to the 'squid' uid and can't send signals to the parent
> squid running as root.

Which Squid versions? (including patches)

I would suspect you are running a nightly snapshot or STABLE10 patched
with the chroot -k patch, and that there maybe is problems with this
patch.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jun 24 2005 - 15:25:34 MDT

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