Re: [SQU] No running copy

Hi Jens-S,

Thanks for that info.
Once I enter in the PID of squid process into the squid.pid and I do a
squid -k shutdown, it works 100%.
The next time I start Squid it doesn't write it's PID into the squid.pid
file.
The only thing that I can think of is that squid just isn't writing the
cache_effective_user properly, as squid.pid is still owned by root. ?

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Dave Wilson
The S.A. Internet
(033) 3456777
0825496159
http://www.sai.co.za
"Who is "General Failure", and what is he doing reading my hard disk ?"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens-S. Voeckler" <voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de>
To: "Dave Wilson" <dave@sai.co.za>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [SQU] No running copy

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Dave Wilson wrote:
>
> ]My squid runs as user "squid" ie. cache_effective_user squid
> ]
> ]Here are the permissions on the squid.pid:
> ]-rw-r--r-- 1 root nogroup 0 Nov 8 14:13 squid.pid
>
> That is strange, my PID files are owned by their cache_effective_user id
> and group at the place mentioned in the config. Root should not own that
> file, since Squid usually does not need to run as root (except the
> pinger).
>
> Also check that the PID mention *within* the file matches your active
> Squid pid. I bet it won't. Thus, rotate and shutdown will try to shut down
> a process which does not exist. Probably an installation/rights/ownership
> error in your package.
>
> 1) remove pid file.
> 2) make sure, squid_effective_user can create files in the directory where
> the pid file to be put.
> 3) put the PID of the running copy into the pid file.
> 4) adjust right and ownership to cache_effetive_user.
> 5) see, if rotate or shutdown works now.
>
> Ciao,
> Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
> Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (RVS)
> University of Hanover, Germany; ++49 511 762 4726
>
>

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