Re: [squid-users] autostarting squid: execvp permission error??

execvp is the posix.1 function call to execute a file...

if I saw this I'd suspect:

funny permissions, or ownership

a buggy init

starting to early in the boot process, ie before something else in the
boot process that needed to happen.

starting squid at the wrong runlevel

filesystem damage

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, suzana wrote:

> hello all!...
> I'm using squid-2.4 in my redhat 7.1 machine...I use squid as a proxy
> server for some of my users.....to autostart squid everytime my server
> goes down, I use this file called
> S25squid in my /etc/rc3.d directory...I have this in the file:
>
> /etc/squid/bin/squid
>
> that's simple enough, I guess...but the problem is, recently we had a
> power failure, and when I turned the server back on, I had this error in
> my boot.log file:
>
> squid : execvp : Permission Denied
> rc: Starting squid : failed
>
> what does this mean? what's execvp (sorry for sounding so ignorant, coz
> I am)...then I tried rebooting the server, and squid started fine,
> without the execvp permission thing...but I still want to know what
> could have caused the execvp error, coz it's bound to happen again
> sooner or later...can anobody gimme some pointers?? or maybe some other
> better way to autorestart squid (other than through rc.local and
> inittab)?..thanks a lot!:)
>
> -suzana-
>
>
>

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