Re: [squid-users] Squid Authenticators

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Colin Campbell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Mike Diggins wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom) wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 08 April 2002 02:34, Mike Diggins wrote:
> > >
> > > > I didn't think it was working at all until I noticed the following
> > > > day when squid rotated the log files one userid and password in my
> > > > outfile. I presume it was the last one that I entered.
> > >
> > > Maybe you have forgotten to turn off output buffering for the log
> > > file? In such case the output will likely only be shown when you
> > > rotate the logs.. (helpers are then restarted).
> >
> > Output buffering in my squid.conf is off (by default).
>
> Not what Henrik was referring to. If you look at your script you'll see
> repeated:
>
> select FILE;
> $| = 1;
>
> In fact it's there for each of the files (processes) open except for
> "$outfile". If you are getting very little output to $outfile, the os
> buffering will be delaying the output until there's a full bugger or the
> file is closed. SO, after opening $outfile, you need to:
>
> select OUTFILE; # or whatever
> $| = 1;
>

So that's what that does! Thank you (and to Henrik), that fixed my
problem.

-Mike
Received on Mon Apr 08 2002 - 07:32:11 MDT