Re: [squid-users] i see squid run twice, one as nobody, the other as root. Why?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Renato Kalugdan wrote:

> ps -ax shows squid running as nobody and as root.

This is normal. The root process is a daemon monitor with the only purpose
of restarting Squid if it should crash. The proxy service is running in
the "nobody" process.

If you do not want this then you can use the -N commandline flag to
disable the daemon mode of Squid and find some other way to have Squid
started as a daemon. But personally I see no reason why to do this unless
you have a system with a very good daemon controller (most UNIX systems
don't have that kind of thing, or at least not in a sane manner..)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Dec 15 2003 - 14:49:29 MST