Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.3.5 not writing session.db, only on reconfigure/shutdown

To be technically accurate Squid has nothing to do with session.db. It
is an internal part of the ext_session_acl program. Squid just happens
to be running that.

As such you should be able to further debug this by running that program
manually and figuring out why it is only writing its database file when
it exits. Squid shutdown, reconfigure, or rotate all require closing the
running helpers.
The helpers -d option or running it under a debugger may help.

Amos

On 25/05/2013 2:30 p.m., Bas Rijniersce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been struggling to get a Splash page going. Actually, the issue is not
> getting a redirect to page the working. It's escaping from the redirection
> loop. After quite a bit of searching I narrowed it down to the session.db
> file not being written.
>
> A db_dump shows no contents until I either force reconfigure or shutdown.
> This excludes permission issues. I've also checked that a forced fs sync
> (using the sync binary) does not cause the contents to be written, so it
> seems that Squid itself is holding the contents. I looked thru the configure
> options, but don't see anything that might influence this.
>
> OS: Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop
> Squid: 3.3.5
> Config: ./configure --with-logdir=/var/log/squid3 --prefix=/usr/local/squid
> --sysconfdir=/etc/squid3 --enable-ssl --enable-ssl-crtd
>
> The Squid session bit:
>
> external_acl_type splash_page ttl=60 concurrency=100 %SRC
> /usr/local/squid/libexec/ext_session_acl -t 7200 -b
> /usr/local/squid/lib/session.db
>
> Everything works as expected when I force the write, so the rest of the
> config seems to work OK.
>
> Suggestions on what the issue might be as most welcome!
>
> Tx for reading
> Bas
>
>
Received on Sun May 26 2013 - 10:11:33 MDT