Re: Can't start squid, help needed

From: C T Leung <leung@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:25:25 -0600 (CST)

Using RPM is great, thank you for your suggestion and
I got squid up and running again.

Thanks.

C T Leung
Sisler High School
Winnipeg, CA

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Reuben Farrelly wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's quite possible that your dnsserver program is not where squid expects
> it to be. I haven't used Squid 1.x but in squid 2.x there is a section in
> the squid.conf file where you specify the location of dnsserver, pinger etc
> etc. Does it match up with the real location of your dnsserver program?
>
> Also, why don't you try out the "proper" redhat method by using an RPM to
> install squid...I have used RPM sources for a while now and find them to be
> a great heap easier than compiling straight from tarball. You can find
> great squid RPM's at http://home.earthlink.net/~intrep/linux/ . These ones
> set up logrotating under redhat and put things where you'd expect to
> generally find them on a redhat system. I found everything to work
> completely reliably using these particular RPM's (I believe others are set
> up on rhcn.redhat.com also but haven't tried them)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Reuben
>
>
>
> >I have a linux box (Red Hat 5.2) hook up to an ISDN line.
> >
> >I Compiled and installed Squid (Version 1, Nov 22 98) but can not
> >start squid successfully. I have created all cache dir and I have the
> >the error of Fail to start dnsserver (I have chown for everything
> >under squid under my name), can someone give me some hint on
> >what I should check for.
> >
> >
> >Thank you very much.
> >
> >
> >Here is my cache.log after starting squid with squid -D &
> >
> >
> >C T Leung
> >Sisler High School
> >Winnipeg
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Reuben Farrelly Sunbury, VIC 3429, Australia
> reuben@mira.net NIC Handle: RF5822
> "The only reason people get lost in thought is because
> it's unfamiliar territory." - Claude Marcotte
>
>
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