[SQU] Squid PID problem again

Hi guys howzit going?

When I run a "squid -k reconfigure" I get "ERROR - no running copy"
It seems that Squid it not writing it's pid in
/usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid
because of the following permissions:

-rw-r--r-- 1 cache cache 2495434 Nov 17 13:28 access.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 cache cache 16775 Nov 17 13:31 cache.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root cache 0 Nov 17 13:31 squid.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 cache cache 2066770 Nov 17 13:31 store.log

Even if I remove squid.pid and kill Squid it keeps on not writing it's PID
into squid.pid.

Here are the associated lines from squid.conf

cache_effective_user cache
cache_effective_group cache

and....

pid_filename /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid

I have been trying to resolve this issue for a number of days now, I have
reinstalled squid 2.3STABLE4 and even tried the "daily tarball" of
squid-2.3-200011150000.
I have recompiled the Linux 2.2.16 kernel and also tried the new 2.2.17
kernel .

I have installed lots and lots of Linux Boxes with the same version of
everything that I'm running here but I've never seen this problem.
Last week I mailed the list and said that it had been fixed just by adding a
new user and changing Squid to run as the new user....... that worked 100%
for 1 "squid -k shutdown", the next time it started up Squid stopped writing
it's PID.
Any ideas ?
Thanks ;-)

Regards
Dave Wilson
The S.A. Internet
(033) 3456777
0825496159
http://www.sai.co.za
"Who is "General Failure", and what is he doing reading my hard disk ?"

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