Re: Cache

On 10/21/97 9:44 AM, Joseph E. Glass (jglass@holt.k12.mi.us) wrote:

>I was wondering if there are any known problems with using proxy
>authorization with large access.list files. I run 7 Linux 2.0.30
>servers which share cach, all running Squid 1.1.16. Every time we add a
>new username we end up having to "killall -HUP squid". Sometimes the
>users authenticate and Squid requests authentication again during the
>same session. This is for a school district that grows about 10 users
>per week and soon will be growing estimated 20 users per week.

You don't need to HUP squid! :-) Just wait up to five minutes.

In client_side.c there is a variable called CHECK_PROXY_FILE_TIME.

It is by default, measured in seconds and set to 300.

Every CHECK_PROXY_FILE_TIME seconds, squid checks the cache modifiction
time, if the file has been modified, it will be reloaded.

The reason behind this is because squid assumes that there is an external
place where people [students] can change their password. In fact if the
user types in a bogus password, they will get an error page refering to a
generic chpasswd.cgi program.

davez

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Apple Computer, Inc. zarzycki@ricochet.net
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Received on Tue Oct 21 1997 - 11:42:24 MDT