Hi My OS is Redhat enterprise 4 AS.My Squid is squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.11. I do following task. [root@localhost ~]# service squid status squid is stopped [root@localhost ~]# service squid start Starting squid: [FAILED] [root@localhost ~]# service squid status squid is stopped [root@localhost ~]# squid [root@localhost ~]# squid [root@localhost ~]# squid 2007/05/05 08:19:10| Squid is already running! Process ID 16226 now I see log files access.log is empety store.log is empety but in cache.log exist following text 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i386- redhat-linux-gnu... 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Process ID 16226 2007/05/05 08:19:01| With 1024 file descriptors available 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Performing DNS Tests... 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i386- redhat-linux-gnu... 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Process ID 16230 2007/05/05 08:19:02| With 1024 file descriptors available 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Performing DNS Tests... 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2007/05/05 08:19:01| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32771, FD 4 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Adding nameserver 194.225.90.4 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Adding nameserver 4.2.2.3 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/05/05 08:19:01| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Referer logging is disabled. 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 9 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Swap maxSize 2048000 KB, estimated 157538 objects 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Target number of buckets: 7876 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Using 8192 Store buckets 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Max Mem size: 174080 KB 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Max Swap size: 2048000 KB 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Rebuilding storage in /cache/ (CLEAN) 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Using Least Load store dir selection 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Current Directory is /root 2007/05/05 08:19:01| Loaded Icons. 2007/05/05 08:19:03| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 10. 2007/05/05 08:19:03| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 11. 2007/05/05 08:19:03| WCCP Disabled. 007/05/05 08:19:03| Ready to serve requests. 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2007/05/05 08:19:02| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32772, FD 4 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Adding nameserver 194.225.90.4 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Adding nameserver 4.2.2.3 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/05/05 08:19:02| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 9 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Swap maxSize 2048000 KB, estimated 157538 objects 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Target number of buckets: 7876 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Using 8192 Store buckets 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Max Mem size: 174080 KB 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Max Swap size: 2048000 KB 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Rebuilding storage in /cache/ (DIRTY) 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Using Least Load store dir selection 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Current Directory is /root 2007/05/05 08:19:02| Loaded Icons. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 10 to *:3128: (98) Addressalready in use FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.017 seconds = 0.012 user + 0.005 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 2128 KB Ordinary blocks: 2091 KB 2 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 1 blks Holding blocks: 200 KB 1 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 36 KB Total in use: 2291 KB 108% Total free: 36 KB 2% 2007/05/05 08:19:04| Done scanning /cache/ swaplog (0 entries) 2007/05/05 08:19:04| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Entries scanned 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Invalid entries. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 With invalid flags. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Objects loaded. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Objects expired. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Objects cancelled. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2007/05/05 08:19:04| Took 3.0 seconds ( 0.0 objects/sec). 2007/05/05 08:19:04| Beginning Validation Procedure 2007/05/05 08:19:04| Completed Validation Procedure 2007/05/05 08:19:04| Validated 0 Entries 2007/05/05 08:19:04| store_swap_size = 0k 2007/05/05 08:19:04| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:00 +0200, Markus.Rietzler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> I restart My OP system . now I use squid command.anything apeared but > >> when I enter squid command for start it squid is allredy running show > >> me. > >> > > could it be, that there is already a squid-version from your > distribution running? > so both - that from your distribution and your squd - will try to use > the same port? > > have a look in cache.log, access.log etc... > > > markus >