Re: [Lias] squid problems

[Andrew Dorrell <andrew.dorrell@cisra.canon.com.au>]

Some snippets from the error log would be most helpful here.  Without 
them I can only guess but I have in the past only run into probelms with 
squid for 2 reasons:

1. disk full
2. cache corrupt

the disk fills up because the squid log files are really big.  You can 
make some configuration mods to reduce them (see squid.conf)  Also the 
cache size you ask for is not in proactice the bound on the cache 
actually created by squid.  Run df to take a look at the available space 
on your disk partitions, delete log files and reconfigure etc.

the cache gets corrupt very infrequently.  When it does you can simply 
blow it all away (with an rm -rf /var/spool/squid/*.  When your restart 
squid it will reconstruct an empty cache (or run squid -z)

(I'm going to bed now though ;-) )

Trevor Gunter wrote:

> I'm running squid (on a rh7.2 box I think it is). For no apparent reason,
> today, squid simply stopped running.
>
> The proxy server was still up and can be pinged ok but no squid. Reboot did
> nothing. Previously, if squid is running and I retype "squid start" , I get
> the message squid is already running. Typing squid -k shutdown now confirms
> no squid process running.
>
> I set the caching directories to be the standard ie /var/spool/squid/
>
> This happened once before about 3 months back, at that time I just redid the
> server and reset the squid.conf file.Took about an hour.
>
> Can anybody give me some ideas of what to try. Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Trevor
>
>
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