On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. If I re-compile the same version of Squid on another machine (same > OS, version etc.), with the correct fd limit, is it sane to just take the > resultant squid binary and replace the one in production (the system fd has > already been raised in production)? Or should I replace other files too?
Replacing the binary is sufficient if the only change you make is the number of filedescriptors or other changes which only affects the binary. > 2. If I do not know the compile options used for the binary currently in > production, would I need to replace anything else in addition to the squid > binary - in case there is a mismatch between options used on the newly > compiled one and the old one? As Squid is almost self-contained (except for icons and error messages) within the single binary there is little else required, but if you change to use external DNS helper (--disable-internal-dns) then you need to remember to install the dnsserver binary as well. The interfaces to different helpers such as authentication or external_acl helpers is neutral to a recompile. There is no need to have helpers replaced only because you recompile Squid. There is however sometimes a dependency on the Squid version as the interface sometimes changes slighty (auth helpers for Squid-2.4 won't work 100% with Squid-2.5 or later) Regards Henrik
