Re: [squid-users] stopping squid = FAILED

Oh yeah, and the 'failed creating swap' issue might be caused by your
cache directory not having enough space to either copy the current swap
to a new name or create the initial swap file. I've noticed that if my
'swap.state' file is 50megs that Squid will need an additional 50 megs
to rebuild this old 'swap.state' file into a new file, and then wipe out
the old one.

Peter Smith

Peter Smith wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 10:19:43 MST