RE: [squid-users] Squid continually restarting

From: Andrew Loughnan <andrewl@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:09:08 +1000

Thanks for all the replies it ended up being a matter of reinitializing (squid -z) I do not know why this would of happened as it was a matter of going from squid 2.4STABLE to 2.5 I would not of thought I would have to reinitialize the cache/swap dir.

Anyway all is well for know

Thanks again

> -----Original Message-----
> From: adam-s@pacbell.net [mailto:adam-s@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, 28 April 2003 2:08 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid continually restarting
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:18:36 +1000, Andrew wrote:
> >Apr 28 12:33:59 linux squid[6014]: Squid Parent: child
> process 6020 started
> >Apr 28 12:33:59 linux squid[6020]: execvp failed: (2) No
> such file or directory
> >Apr 28 12:33:59 linux squid[6020]: Squid Parent: child
> process 0 started
> >Apr 28 12:33:59 linux squid[6020]: Squid Parent: child
> process -1 exited with status 1
> >Apr 28 12:33:59 linux squid[6020]: Exiting due to repeated,
> frequent failures
>
> Well it would help if you mentioned what you had already tried or
> checked. I'm sure a real squid expert will follow up, but if it were
> me, I would troubleshoot the "no such file or directory" message.
> First "egrep ^cache_dir squid.conf" and make sure that the caches you
> have defined in squid.conf actually exist/are mounted and that their
> permissions match whatever owner and group you set via
> cache_effective_user and cache_effective_group (also in squid.conf).
> Also check existance and perms for your log directory (search
> squid.conf for cache.log and access.log and the path [if any] that
> you've set) all those files and probably the directory itself should
> be owned by or at least writable by the squid process (owner:group).
>
> And if none of that is it then, as Tony posted, look at your cache.log
> and post the relevant lines.
>
> hth,
>
> Adam
>
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