On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:49:22 -0600, "David Parks" <davidparks21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Using 3.1.4, when I call squid -k rotate to rotate the logs, it restarts > all the authentication and acl helpers. > Why is this? I have an ACL helper running for every request (very quick), > and the reload of logs is causing it to be down for ~10 seconds. > I would like to be able to parse logs every 30 seconds for near-real-time > reporting. This is because the helpers are attached to the cache.log for debugging and error reporting. This has always been the case AFAIK. Use the log daemon: feature instead for real-time access to log data. It lets you easily create a daemon script to receive and do anything with the log lines. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/LogDaemon Amos