Re: [squid-users] Squid sometimes failed on boot but it work

Chris Robertson ha scritto:
> Paolo De Marco wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> I have a RedHat 9 with Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE1 for
>> i386-redhat-linux-gnu, and it starts on the boot machine.
>> Sometimes Squid failed to start on machine's boot. In messages i see
>>
>> squid: Starting squid:
>> squid[1886]: Squid Parent: child process 1889 started
>> squid: .
>> last message repeated 19 times
>> squid:
>> rc: Starting squid: failed
>>
>> but it works good! Squid accepts all requests. In cache.log there are
>> no errors...
>> I have 8 machines with the same problem. Any idea?
>>
> My guess would be that your init script starts Squid (successfully) and
> looks for a pid file to verify that Squid is running (printing a period
> every second for 20 seconds while waiting). I would further speculate
> that the pid file is either being created in a location other than the
> one that the init script expects it (likely /var/run/squid.pid), or is
> not created due to a permissions issue. Not having that pid file to
> fall back on will likely prevent your init script from properly stopping
> squid (or reloading it for that matter). But this is all just speculation.
>
> Chris

Thanks for the answer.
In the squid's starting script the pid file is located in /var/run: the
pid file exist, and the permissions are
-rw-r--r-- 1 root squid squid.pid
so i think this is not the problem.
Sometimes Squid failed to start on machine's boot, but not always...

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Paolo De Marco