Hi Matus > On 17.10 11:27, Awie wrote: > > I have intermittent problem of PID conflict between squid and other > > service. As report below, squid uses PID that also be used by tty2. > > tty2 is a tty, not a process. Do you mean getty on tty2? Yes, you are correct. But getty is one of sample. > > Sometime it conflict with other service. > > so, the pid in squid pid file is used by someone else, not squid. Yes. > > I load squid from rc.local. Is it the cause of problem? Should I use > > another method to load Squid? > > - how do you shut squid down? do you always explicitly shut it down via > system shutdown scripts? Yes. > - where do you have pidfile? in /var/run? There should be system startup > scripts that clean /var/run. Do you have them? The squid PID is put in different directory. I will try to put in /var/run and see the condition. Thx & Rgds, Awie