Re: Squid to be run during boot up

I had the same problem. I don't know if it's the nicest solution, but I
added a line to /etc/inittab:

sq:2345:once:/usr/local/squid/bin/squid -s

Sander

> nithin ravanikar wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a problem with squid version 2.2.STABLE4.
> Its bit urgent.
>
> I am not able to start squid during boot time.
> I need to manually enter the command squid after boot
> to enable it
> in the backgroud.
>
> I have included the path to the squid bin in the file
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> /usr/sbin/squid
>
> but after the system is rebooted, checking from the
> client, squid is still not started.
> I enable it manually with the squid command after
> boot.
>
> How do i enable it during boot?
>
> If i run squid -NCd1 to debug the starting squid bin
> it gives the following message...
>
> 2000/04/08 13:13:09| Starting Squid Cache version
> 2.2.STABLE4 for i686-pc-linux-
> gnu...
> 2000/04/08 13:13:09| Process ID 746
> 2000/04/08 13:13:09| With 1024 file descriptors
> available
> 2000/04/08 13:13:09| Performing DNS Tests...
> 2000/04/08 13:13:09| Successful DNS name lookup
> tests...
> 2000/04/08 13:13:09| helperOpenServers: Starting 5
> 'dnsserver' processes
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Swap maxSize 102400 KB,
> estimated
> 7876 objects
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Target number of buckets: 157
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Using 8192 Store buckets,
> replacement runs every 10 seconds
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir
> #0 (DIRTY)
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Set Current Directory to
> /var/spool/squid
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| Loaded Icons.
> 2000/04/08 13:13:14| commBind: Cannot bind socket FD
> 36 to *:3128: (98) Address
> already in use
> FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port
>
> Kindly help
>
> Nithin
>
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