[squid-users] stopping squid = FAILED

Hi,

I have a proxy firewall box. Recently it was shutdown or picked at not sure.
Now squid doesn't work, among other things.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid stop
Stopping squid: [FAILED]

starting squid is ok, but it doesn't work. Is there any simple solution or, what could be the root of the problem?

I reinstalled squid using the user/group squid. However once I start squid using squid -z I get a "failed creating swap", now i know from the FAQ that I should create /var/spool/cache in order to fix (and not run squid as root) that but it doesn't seem to fix it.

Also user squid has /bin/false shell so i can't login with this user in order to run squid -z . What can I do here?

Thanks to all,
-oscar

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