Re: [squid-users] Re: Problems with starting squid after reboot

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Sessler, Enrico wrote:

> Once again: although it is configured in ../rc.d/
> squid is not running after a reboot.
>
> When I try to start it on the command line it
> terminates with the error message "... already running"
> and gives me the PID of "getty".
>
> After I kill this process it is possible again
> to start squid.

What's in squid.pid? It's in the logs/ directory. I suspect it's an old
file left around from an ungraceful exit. Squid sees the file, checks for
a process with that pid and assumes it's squid. Since it thinks a squid
process is already running it won't start a new one.

Since you've killed the getty, squid will happily start and has probably
overwritten the pid file.

You could remove the pid file in the startup script.

Colin
Received on Tue Mar 19 2002 - 15:53:11 MST