authenticate_program bombs out

Hi Folks,

please excuse me if i appear to lack the correct ettiquette for this list -
i have only just discovered squid (yes i'm a slow learner! ;-) and have come
up against a baffling (well to me anyway) problem about which i am hoping to
gain some guidance from the enlightened.

well i am used to M$ proxy mainly, and am just sick to death of the way they
handle their API, so you can imagine my glee when i realised how squid does
it - way cool! :)

but alas, i quickly rapped out a test authenticate_program according to my
understanding, but it just causes squid to bomb out - process dies with the
error:

FATAL: Too many queued authenticator requests
Squid Cache (Version 2.3.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.

now when i run the authenitcate program at a commandline, it works just
fine. the code is supposed to authenticate out of my SQL database - the
back end to my radius dial-up service - and seems to do it nicely when i run
it interactively.

by the way, i am running squid on windows2000 advanced server - the
authenticate_program takes no arguments and seems to behave as expected in a
cmd shell. the squid version is: 2001/03/26 17:47:19| Starting Squid Cache
version 2.3.STABLE4 for WIN32...

is anyone able to shed some light on this? any suggestion most appreciated
indeed!

thanks and regards,

Mike Everest.
Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 09:02:50 MST