FYI - Re: Problem starting squid FIXED!!!

G'day Guys,

Thanks to all who replied with assistance to my problem. It wasn't a
permission problem though!

What I found out was that for some reason, if I fed my browser (using the
proxy server) an IP address, it worked... but if I gave it the actual name
(eg. www.microsoft.com), then squid bombed out with the original error...
and DNS problem perhaps?

Well... I found the following web page which while not exactly answering
my problem, seemed to be leading somewhere!

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.3/bugs/index.html#squid-2.3.stable2-USE_DNSSERVER

So... I installed the patches, recompiled (using the
"--disable-internal-dns" configure option), reinstalled, used my already
configured squid.conf file and hey presto - it worked!!!

So again, thanks to those who replied, and for anyone with the same
problem, try this out :-)

Regards,
    Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes wrote:

> G'day Guys,
>
> I'm having problems getting squid to start on a FreeBSD v4 box:
>
> I've compiled squid fine - and set up a squid.conf file. I have run
> "squid -z" and created the cache dirs. The problem that I'm having is
> that when I look at the log, I get the following messages:
>
> Ready to serve requests
> Not currently OK to rewrite swap log.
> storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Operation aborted
> /kernel : pid 61808 (squid), uid 65534 : exited on signal 6
>
> This is the first time that I've tried to run squid - any ideas on
> what's wrong here?
>
> Any help is appreciated, and my thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Barnes
> Server Administrator
> Information Technology Division
> University of Technology, Sydney
> Web: http://www.uts.edu.au
>
> IT Support Centre Phone: +61 2 95142222
> IT Support Centre Email: helpdesk@uts.edu.au

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Andrew Barnes
Server Administrator
Information Technology Division
University of Technology, Sydney
Web:   http://www.uts.edu.au
IT Support Centre Phone: +61 2 95142222
IT Support Centre Email: helpdesk@uts.edu.au