Your script is not shutting down when squid closes stdin/stdout. So squid will start a new copy every time. 2014-06-23 19:56 GMT-03:00 Romeo Mihalcea <romeo.mihalcea@xxxxxxxxx>: > I have this authentication script on my setup: > > auth_param basic program /usr/bin/python /etc/auth.py > auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1 > auth_param basic realm Please login > auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 hours > > Quite frequently I check with a cron for changes in my user's data > (passwords etc) and I issue a squid3 -k reconfigure whenever I detect > a change. The problem is that each time I issue this command squid > spanws 5 new authentication listeners (/usr/bin/python /etc/auth.py) > and it quickly adds up to thousands given the amount of activity we > have on our servers. > > Any ideas on how I can do this better?
