Re: [squid-users] Help with running 2 instances of squid

From: Chris Wilcox <not_rich_yet@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:56:50 +0100

>Hello,
>
>I have three versions of squid running on the same machine, two in
>production and one for development. The best way that I found was to
>have three entirely separate compiles for each version where I actually
>change the names of the squid executables, config files, directory
>structures, pids, ports, etc. Then I fire them off independently with
>separate init.d scripts (I work under linux).
>
>BTW, I call different redirectors with each 'version' of squid.

I guess it depends on circumstances. I originally thought of using seperate
installs of Squid for each task, but we're working on a commercial product
and really want to avoid the need to manage two packages for Squid instead
of one.

The problem has been narrowed down to the second init.d script to start the
second squid instance, as I can manually start each squid from the relevant
conf file without error.

Thanks for the reply,

Regards,

nry

>
>Murrah Boswell
>Systems Administrator
>Wild Apache Internet Services
>
>Chris Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As far as I can tell, I have followed everything I'm supposed to have to
> > make this work. I wish to run two instances of Squid on the same
>machine:
> > Squid/2.4.STABLE6 on Debian Woody stable.
> >
> > I have squid.conf and squid2.conf with the relevant settings altered.
> >
> > Squid.conf listens on port 3128 on the external IP. I have not altered
>the
> > PID file path for this one.
> > Squid2.conf listens on port 8085 on 127.0.0.1 I have altered the PID
>file
> > path to be /var/run/squid2.pid I have created a different cache
>directory
> > etc, and specified these within the squid2.conf file, along with
>checkong
> > relevant permissions on these directories.
> >
> > I have then copied the squid init.d script and called this squid2. I
>have
> > altered squid2 to have a different name string, and altered all relevant
> > entries within this script to point to the squid2 details eg cache
>directory
> > etc. This squid2 script is set to use 'squid2.pid' as I've specified in
> > squid2.conf
> >
> > Yet still, when I do 'squid2 start' it always returns 'Squid is already
> > running! Process ID 213'
> >
> > I'm now lost. Am I missing something really obvious here? I've been
>trying
> > to get this going for a good few weeks now!
> >
> > Major thanks for any advice and suggestions!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > nry
> >
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