Re: [squid-users] i see squid run twice, one as nobody, the other as root. Why?

[Duane Wessels]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Renato Kalugdan wrote:

> Morning,
>
> ps -ax shows squid running as nobody and as root.
>
> I thought commands below would disallow root to run squid.

This is normal.  The first process is like a "watchdog."  Its job
is to monitor the child and make sure there is always one child
process running.

The parent process can run as root, and indeed must if you are
binding Squid's incoming socket to port 80.

Duane W.