Re: [squid-users] Change squid process name

From: Ammad Shah <ammads@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:24:37 +0500 (PKT)

Richard,

This is simple, just you have to rename squid binary. if you are using
Fedora/Redhat change the following
/usr/sbin/squid
/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid
/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid

and content of "/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid"
thats all

Ammad Shah

> Talk to your OS vendor support and see if they've got tools to limit
> access to the process list to the processes running under your uid.
> THen users can only see processes running under their uid, and won't
> see Squid.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008, Richard wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am running the current Squid Version on a Unix server, and don't want
>> other users to see that Squid is running!
>>
>> How can I prevent that Squid will be listed by tools like "top"?
>>
>> It is possible to change the process name?
>>
>> Please excause my bad english!
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Richard
>
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