Re: [squid-users] TWO Squid Processes are running!!

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:29:33 +0200

On Sunday 06 July 2003 18.03, Chrispen Chisvo wrote:
> I always have two running.
> /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid
> (squid)
>
> the main process is one showing the path. the other appears to be a
> child process. Killing the parent, the child process will also die.
> Have never investigated in full what the child process is for.

The child process is the active Squid process.

The parent is the daemon monitor process which automatically restarts
Squid on failures. See the -N command line option.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 10:30:21 MDT

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