Sometimes Squid takes some time to shutdown properly. Perhaps if you do
the 'squid stop' and then watch your 'ps auxf' you'll see it disappear
after a while. The most likely cause could be 'shutdown_lifetime' of 30
seconds (http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/Timeouts.htm#shutdown_lifetime).
I've run into a similar situation with the cache-rebuild problem you are
having. Be sure that the owner/group permissions on your
/var/spool/cache are identical to what you have Squid starting up as.
Additionally, if you are mounting a device as /var/spool/cache, be sure
these permissions are set on the directory with it mounted and unmounted
(I've had to re-check this before.) Also, keep a careful watch on your
cache.log as it is the only way Squid can communicate with you when
using the 'init.d/' scripts. Remember that sometimes 'squid -XN' can be
helpful in debugging problems too!
Hope this helps.
Peter Smith
Oscar Castaneda V. wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a proxy firewall box. Recently it was shutdown or picked at not sure.
>Now squid doesn't work, among other things.
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid stop
>Stopping squid: [FAILED]
>
>starting squid is ok, but it doesn't work. Is there any simple solution or, what could be the root of the problem?
>
>I reinstalled squid using the user/group squid. However once I start squid using squid -z I get a "failed creating swap", now i know from the FAQ that I should create /var/spool/cache in order to fix (and not run squid as root) that but it doesn't seem to fix it.
>
>Also user squid has /bin/false shell so i can't login with this user in order to run squid -z . What can I do here?
>
>
>Thanks to all,
>-oscar
>
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