I also did see that if I do service squid status, it says squid is running, but than says this: "ACL name '209.213.210.178' not defined!" "FATAL: Bungled squid.conf line 636: http_access allow 209.213.210.178" "Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally." On Dec 9, 2007 8:03 PM, Steve Billig <unknownboogyman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well doing squid -k parse in terminal doesn't do anything for me, and > since I installed squid with a .rpm I don't know where the cache.log > is actually. > > > On Dec 9, 2007 7:59 PM, Steve Billig <unknownboogyman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well doing squid -k parse in terminal doesn't do anything for me, and > > since I installed squid with a .rpm I don't know where the cache.log > > is actually. > > > > > > On Dec 9, 2007 7:55 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
