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

The problem is still present... any idea?

Paolo De Marco ha scritto:
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> 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