Re: [squid-users] Why is Squid restarting?

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Joao Coutinho wrote:

> Everything seems to work fine, my users are browsing the internet, squid is
> authenticating, but once in a while, a popup appears asking for loginname
> and passord. We just click Cancel and continue to browse without problems.
> Looking at cache.log, I saw that Squid is restarting more than twice a day.
> I have no Idea why.

> 2003/09/17 11:25:30| helperStatefulDefer: None available.
> 2003/09/17 11:25:30| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy.
> 2003/09/17 11:25:30| WARNING: 5 pending requests queued
> 2003/09/17 11:25:30| Consider increasing the number of ntlmauthenticator
processes in your config file.
> 2003/09/17 11:56:22| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 10 'wb_ntlmauth'
> processes

If you have more than lets say 5 users concurrnetly browsing the Internet
with NTLM authentication then you may want to increase this
significantly, as told in the error.

> (wb_ntlmauth)[12511](wb_ntlm_auth.c:273): fgets() failed! dying.....
> errno=22 (Invalid argument)
> (wb_ntlmauth)[12512](wb_ntlm_auth.c:273): fgets() failed! dying.....
> errno=22 (Invalid argument)
> (wb_ntlmauth)[12510](wb_ntlm_auth.c:273): fgets() failed! dying.....

These are just noise and will be gone if you upgrade to 2.5.STABLE4.

> 2003/09/17 12:29:20| parseConfigFile: line 1006 unrecognized: 'default all
> requests # are sent. # #Default: # none'

This you may want to fix.. something has stomped on your squid.conf..

> 2003/09/17 14:15:31| AuthenticateNTLMHandleReply: invalid callback data.
> Releasing helper '0x8298bd8'.
> 2003/09/17 14:15:31| AuthenticateNTLMHandleReply: invalid callback data.
> Releasing helper '0x8298c70'.

This too is noise and can be ignored.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 14:44:59 MDT