Re: Fw: [squid-users] Squid started but no function

Kenny Lee wrote:
> hi Amos,
>
> please view below for my answer.
>
> thank you
>
> Regards,
> Kenny
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
> To: "Kenny Lee" <kenny@dallab.net>
> Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid started but no function
>
>
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> i am using squid 2.6 STABLE5-7, after set all the settings in
>>> squid.conf,
>>> it
>>> works very prefectly and no error message. But everytimes i restarted
>>> the
>>> proxy server, i can see the squid service is ON there, but all my user
>>> unable to surf net. i need to manually restart the squid service again,
>>> then
>>> all user only can access net. why? is it a bug?
>>
>> Not much detail to base an answer on there.
>>
>> Operating System?
> SuSE open source 10.2
>>
>> Self-build or a packaged squid?
> packaged squid which came from SuSE
>>
>> Is squid being run as root like it should?
> Yes, squid run as root
>>
>> Can you upgrade to a recent Squid (2.6 STABLE 20 is now out)?
> havent tried, is it because of version?

Maybe, first reason to upgrade is to find that out.
Many other better reasons to upgrade too, stable5 is very old.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories for two.

>>
>> How is the automatic restart happening?
> i set in "crontab -e" to restart the server weekly. the code is "5 1 * *
> 1 /sbin/shutdown -r now"

If you need to restart a linux/BSD server weekly you have much larger
problems than squid...

>>
>> What is your cache.log file saying about the running of squid?
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE5 for
> i686-pc-linux-gnu...
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Process ID 3801
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| With 4096 file descriptors available
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Using epoll for the IO loop
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32769, FD 6
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Adding nameserver 202.188.0.133 from /etc/resolv.conf
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Adding nameserver 202.188.1.5 from /etc/resolv.conf
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Adding domain com from /etc/resolv.conf
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| User-Agent logging is disabled.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Referer logging is disabled.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 11
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Target number of buckets: 393
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Using 8192 Store buckets
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every
> 3600/3600 sec
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Rebuilding storage in /var/cache/squid (CLEAN)
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Using Least Load store dir selection
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Set Current Directory to /var/cache/squid
> 2008/05/05 01:08:44| Loaded Icons.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port
> 81, FD 13.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 14.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| HTCP Disabled.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 15.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| WCCP Disabled.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Pinger socket opened on FD 16
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Ready to serve requests.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Store rebuilding is 96.7% complete
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Done reading /var/cache/squid swaplog (4233 entries)
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 4233 Entries scanned
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 0 Invalid entries.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 0 With invalid flags.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 4233 Objects loaded.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 0 Objects expired.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 0 Objects cancelled.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 0 Duplicate URLs purged.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided.
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Took 0.8 seconds (5233.5 objects/sec).
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Beginning Validation Procedure
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Completed Validation Procedure
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| Validated 4233 Entries
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| store_swap_size = 92060k
> 2008/05/05 01:08:45| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects
>

Looks like its working.

Maybe the startup script doing something weird (might be as quirky as
starting before an auto-sensing FW on reboot)

>>
>> Any other related setup not directly with the squid.conf? (ie
>> transparent,
>> PAC, WCCP)
> No.

Amos

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Please use Squid 2.6.STABLE20 or 3.0.STABLE5