Re: Squid wont start after update?

Rick Stevens wrote:

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:58 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:

Rick Stevens wrote:

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:39 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:

This is what I see:

    ls -al /var/spool/squid
    total 12
    drwxr-x---  2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 .
    drwxr-xr-x 14 root  root  4096 2007-11-17 08:36

Is that ok?

Uh, it should be, but just to be safe, as root:

	chmod 755 /var/spool/squid		[Did that]

And can you include the line that starts with "cache_dir" from your

/etc/squid/squid.conf file?

All I see with cache_dir are commented?

less  /etc/squid/squid.conf | grep cache_dir

#       Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
#  TAG: cache_dir
#       cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
#       You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
#       cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
#       cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
#       cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
#       block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
#       leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB.  Note
#       has written some objects to the cache_dir.
#       2 full stripes for object hits. (ie a COSS cache_dir will reject
#       read-only, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
#       the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
# cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256   <---- UNCOMMENT THIS LINE
#       'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
#       a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
#       with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
#       If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
#       corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
#       configuration file.  If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
#       the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
#       better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.

Oh, yikes!  Ok, uncomment the line I marked above and retry the
"squid -z" or "service squid restart".

Note that the line above will result in a 100MB cache, so make sure
the /var filesystem has at least 120MB free.  Check free space via
the "df -h /var" command.  On my system:

	[root@prophead ~]# df -h /var
	Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
	/dev/hda5             4.0G  653M  3.1G  18% /var

so I have 3.1G free.

Ok, I fixed the line in squid.conf and then:
squid -z

Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.005 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.002 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
Aborted

I thank you for your help.

Bob Goodwin