On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Elsen Marc wrote:
Squid uses a parent child mechanism. The child process does the real thing. The parent watches the child, and takes action to restart it, if the child crashes for instances.
In lack of a decent service monitor in UNIX (well, init is quite decent, but nobody is using it due to it's fragile method of configuration & control)
If you are using a decent service manager then you can use the -N option to disable the Squid built in service monitor.
Regards Henrik
