On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:38:50 -0800 (PST), John Peterson <johnp125@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a php auth file that works fine from command line and works also in > squid, however sometime during the night or so squid stops working. Can you > tell me why this may be happening thanks for all your help. a) someone hitting a failure in the PHP. b) PHP lifetime timeout. I've hit this in a few helpers using PHP. The lifetime timeouts for PHP get hit when there are long periods with no data IO. you need to set the php-cli.ini with long read lifetimes and the override the stdin read timeouts in the script itself. PHP4.x and early 5.x were not very reliable about which of the two methods worked. Amos