Re: [squid-users] Banner page for certain users in squid

On lör, 2007-09-22 at 00:02 +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > On tor, 2007-09-20 at 10:45 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >
> >>> I run SARG against my access.log every day to get a list of top 30
> >>> users, and would like to know if there is a way of redirecting these top
> >>> 30 users to a notice page upon first login in squid, where they are
> >>> notified of their high usage? After which they can continue surfing of
> >>> course.
> >> I'm sure people have done it in the past. I've not done it. Henrik?
> >
> > A acl containing these users combined with the session helper would do
> > the trick fine.
>
> The idea behind most of these is that it a dynamic process rather than a
> fixed one and squid -k reconfigure is too chunky a process to want
> running every, say minute, to be fast enough.

Why would you be running "squid -k reconfigure" every minute for this?
Only needed when the list of users to alert changes..

And yes, even that can easily be eleminated by using a simple helper..

Regards
Henrik