wtmpx file incrases fast because of squid in inittab

Hi All,

I am using squid2.2STABE4 on sun solaris 2.6
I configured squid to run automatically when the system starts from
inittab as in faq

sq:3:respawn:/usr/local/squid/bin/squid.sh < /dev/null >> /tmp/squid.log
2>&1

and squid.sh is :
        #!/bin/sh
        C=/usr/local/squid
        PATH=/usr/bin:$C/bin
        TZ=PST8PDT
        export PATH TZ

        notify="root"
        cd $C
        umask 022
        sleep 10
        while [ -f /tmp/nosquid ]; do
                sleep 1
        done
        /usr/bin/tail -20 $C/logs/cache.log \
                | Mail -s "Squid restart on `hostname` at `date`" $notify
        exec bin/squid -CYs

the problem is that I found /var/wtmpx increases so fast that /var gets
filled, when I checked it I found squid.sh is written in it few times per
second

so I figured out that squid.sh dies, I didn't find a file
called /tmp/nosquid, I guess that is why inittab starts it again
so why isn't /tmp/nosquid is created , and which process should start it?
and how can I overcome this problem ?

PS: I recently have installed patches for year 2000 from sun, while the
squid was running, also IPFilter package is installed, I didn't find
problems in /var before installing this patches, does it have anything to
do with the /tmp/nosquid ?

Best Regards
Sherif Mohamad
System Administrator
Received on Thu Sep 23 1999 - 08:57:28 MDT