> Well, in Fedora 8, I changed some things in the squid.conf file, so I > try to restart squid. Both Stopping and Starting failed, so I tried to > do the commands individually. They both fail, coming up with: > "Stopping squid... [FAILED]" & "Starting squid... [FAILED]" while > using the commands service squid stop etc. in root. Since this did not > work I went to System -> Administration -> Services and it says that > Squid is running, so I try to stop it and get this message: "squid > failed. The error was: Stopping squid: [FAILED]". It does work fine to > my knowledge, using squidclient http://www.google.com/ in terminal and > it works, also on my Windows machine going through it works. Only > thing I changed in my configure file was adding a ACL, so I have no > idea. > > Anyone know of anything? Ah, this is a little catch-22 in squid. To pass the start/stop/etc a second instance of squid needs to start for a short while to generate a control signal. If squid.conf contains an error that second instance fails to start and do its thing. Running "squid -k parse" or a scan of the cache.log should show you where the problem is. Fix that and the squid controls should work again. Amos
