Re: [squid-users] Authentication Hack

Dave Coventry wrote:
> 1:#!/usr/bin/perl
> 2:$| = 1;
> 3:$ip=<STDIN>;
> 4:$ip=chomp($ip);
> 5:$ipfile='/var/www/apache2-default/cgi-bin/ips/'.$ip;
> 6:#print $ipfile;
> 7:if (-e $ipfile){print "OK";}
> 8:else {print "ERR : ".$ip;}
>
> This appears in the cache.log:
>
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| WARNING: ipauth #1 (FD 7) exited
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| WARNING: ipauth #2 (FD 8) exited
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| WARNING: ipauth #3 (FD 9) exited
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| Too few ipauth processes are running
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| Finished. Wrote 195 entries.
> 2008/03/05 11:33:44| Took 0.0 seconds (874439.5 entries/sec).
> FATAL: The ipauth helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!

(Sorry Dave I keep hitting reply and not reply to list)

External helps are not supposed to exit once they have completed a
request. Your perl script should read from stdin then write OK/ERR then
wait for more input.

Cheers,
Mick
Received on Wed Mar 05 2008 - 03:09:10 MST