After I uninstalled the old squid, I reset them to zero (rm cache.log, touch cache.log) and same for access.log. They are still zero. -----Original Message----- From: Samit [mailto:janasamit@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: March 6, 2007 11:43 PM To: Angela Burrell Cc: squid users Subject: Re: ERROR: No running copy! What is the file size of the log files inside /var/log/squid? Angela Burrell wrote: > Help help! > > The version of squid that was available for my distro (2.6.STABLE1) didn't > work for me, I installed it with apt-get on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 for amd64 > kernel 2.6.17. > > So I removed it and installed 2.6.STABLE9 from source. I cannot get it to > run. > > when I do /etc/init.d/squid start it says [ok] and if I do /usr/sbin/squid > it returns a command prompt (no errors). squid -k parse also returns no > errors. > > However squid -k check, squid -k reload (etc) give this error: > > squid: ERROR: No running copy > > /var/log/squid/cache.log has not been touched since I uninstalled the old > squid. /var/log/messages has some things in it that i found very unhelpful: > > Mar 6 18:51:36 proxy squid[2286]: Squid Parent: child process 2288 started > Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2290 started > Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2292 started > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2294]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2294]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 2294 started > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 2294 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2292 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2296]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2296]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2296 started > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2296 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2290 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2298]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2298]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2298 started > > I have read the FAQ and the information that it has does not apply to me > (i.e. find the PID and put it in a file) > > root@proxy:/var# ps -fu squid > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY > root@proxy:/var# > > as you can see there is nothing running. > > My squidGuards start normally then stop immediately: > 2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard 1.2.0 started (1173225156.467) > 2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard ready for requests (1173225156.489) > 2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard stopped (1173225156.733) > > Please help!! > >