Re: [squid-users] Squid3 just Died

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 04:00:36 Wilson Hernandez - MSD, S. A. wrote:
> Pieter,
>
> I had to delete my cache. I didn't get any answers from the list and I
> had a lot of people calling.
>
> I did:
> rm -r /squid/cache/*
>
> it took over 30 minutes.

Next time, rename /squid/cache and delete the old cache later.

I realise it's easier to think of stuff like this when the phone's not ringing
off the hook.

> Then,
> restarted squid (/etc/init.d/squid3 start) and it was doing the same: It
> started and it just died without giving any errors.
>
> I then decided to also delete, actually rename, access.log and store.log
> files. This time when I restarted, it worked. I had to do it that way
> because that was the only solution I found. I there is another way to
> restore all the previous objects please let me know.
>
> One more thing, What could have caused that problem? Will this happen
> again in a couple of months?
>
> Thanks
>
[snip, tangent]

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ian j hart