Re: [squid-users] Squid Clustering

On 08/10/11 09:42, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
> 2011/10/7 Momen, Mazdak<MMomen_at_cvent.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I create a squid cluster that would ideally share log files and replicate config changes to each other? We have a load balancer that can handle sending requests to one or the other server but I would prefer to not have to have someone log into each squid server to change the ACL, is there a better way to handle this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mazdak
>>
>
> Just thinkin
>
> we did something like that once. what we do is to split ACL into a
> sparate files, like squid.acl, and do an include in squid.conf.
>
> Then, using ssh and key capabilities we do some scripts that takes
> squid.acl from the master one, and if there is a change, maybe
> md5sum, you restart/reconfigure your slave squid.
>
> About logs, you shall need use syslog (2.7 and 3.2 supports that,
> not 3.0 nor 3.1) or maybe a non-anonymouse pipe file in a filesystem
> like gfs/ocfs2 so you can mix all activities in a single big
> access.log file.

All squid since 2.6 support _syslog_. Did you mean daemon helper scripts
or UDP packets?

Amos

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