I have Squid running in a cybercafe environment. Frequently, new users will be added, and existing user's accounts will be disabled. This is to enable and disable Internet access for people.
I'm currently using access with a password file that gets modified whenever there is a user change. The changes don't take effect until I restart squid, or do a squid -k reconfigure. Someone else suggested that I use LDAP to avoid this issue, and I'm looking into that option right now. Steve On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:30, Peter Koinange wrote: > Something wrong here, why would you really need to ran squid -k so often, I > believe you problem here is administration I find it impossible see why you > are making changes every 2 minutes. Come up with a admin policy on how often > changes are done and whn they should take effect > > Peter > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Cody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 7:31 AM > Subject: [squid-users] Running squid -k reconfigure frequently > > > > Hello all, > > > > I would like to know if there is a negative impact on a system, or on > Squid, > > if the squid -k reconfigure command is ran at a frequent interval. For > > example, I would like to run it about every 2 minutes to make user changes > > take effect rapidly. > > > > Is that going to be a problem? If so, is there a better interval to use, > or > > a better way to make user changes take effect? I'm using user > authentication > > and the changes I'm talking about are user creation, enabling, disabling, > and > > deleting. The changes don't take effect until the squid -k reconfigure > > command is ran. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Steve Cody > > > > -- > > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > >
