[squid-users] ERROR basicauthenticator exited ...squid restarts every hour

Hi all,

I am using squid vDEV2.5 with NTLM auth, installed on RedHat v7.1 (kernel
v2.4.6). NTLM authentication keeps giving some netbios errors (3 & 4).
However it seems to work fairly well.

I though have a few odd things with this configuration :
1/ I installed NTLM auth for basic authentication and use basic for our
netscape and opera users. It's configured like this :
# NTLM AUTHENTICATION WITH LOCAL BSD FOR IE
auth_param ntlm program /opt/squid/libexec/squid/ntlm_auth DOMAIN/kcoeq01
DOMAIN/kcobe6 DOMAIN/kcobe6a
auth_param ntlm children 8
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 1
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
# Modification: Authenticate with basic for our Netscape users
auth_param basic program /opt/squid/libexec/squid/msnt_auth
auth_param basic children 12
auth_param basic realm Squid Europe proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
I have a strange problem, this is why I have set basic children at 12 :
2001/09/26 10:04:48| WARNING: basicauthenticator #7 (FD 29) exited
2001/09/26 10:04:48| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2001/09/26 10:04:48| WARNING: Closing open FD 39
2001/09/26 10:04:48| 65536 entries written so far.
2001/09/26 10:04:48| Finished. Wrote 78564 entries.
2001/09/26 10:04:48| Took 0.1 seconds (875403.9 entries/sec).
FATAL: Too few basicauthenticator processes are running
Squid Cache (Version 2.5-DEVEL): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 41.030 seconds = 26.070 user + 14.960 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 428
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
        total space in arena: 19101 KB
        Ordinary blocks: 19033 KB 78 blks
        Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
        Holding blocks: 444 KB 2 blks
        Free Small blocks: 0 KB
        Free Ordinary blocks: 68 KB
        Total in use: 19477 KB 102%
        Total free: 68 KB 0%
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=104 (Connection reset by peer)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
fgets() failed! dying..... errno=0 (Success)
2001/09/26 10:04:51| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5-DEVEL for
i686-pc-linux-gn
Squid restarts every hour because of 'too few basicauthenticator processes
are running' ?!?!?!

2/Since we are using this squid with ntlm and redhatv7.1, we cannot
authenticate yahoo or icq. Is this a problem regarding authentication or
security, I do not know? Can someone give me some advice helping me solving
this one. I do not have a clue, logfiles do not mention anything about it.

Koen Van Bossche

KONE International SA
KCO Telecom
Ave E. Van Nieuwenhuyse, 6
B - 1160 Brussels, Belgium
Tel : +32 (0)2 676.93.81
Fax : +32 (0)2 676.93.91
Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 02:28:10 MDT