Thanks Amos. It works. On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/09/18 4:13 AM, Sekar Duraisamy wrote: >> Thanks for your prompt reply. >> >> I could see the below message on cache.log even after removed >> cache_dir from squid.conf >> >> "2018/09/07 02:48:35| Set Current Directory to >> /opt/squid/squid3527/var/cache/squid" >> >> Is this normal or I need to do anything else when i restart the squid? > > > That "cache" in that path is OS terminology from the FHS standard > (<http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA>). > Not a Squid cache. > > The "/var/cache/squid/" part as a whole is the FHS directory assigned to > Squid for storing anything that it needs to persist between executions > and across system reboot. That is all. > One of those persistent things does happen to be cache_dir (*if* you > configure any), but other things also are needed to persist and may be > placed there. > > > For example; that message above is the Squid process CWD being set as > the location where Squid will drop core dumps *if* the OS lets cores be > created. > > You can move it elsewhere with the coredump_dir directive in squid.conf, > but be aware that other locations may not be cleaned up automatically by > your package installation software if/when your Squid installation is > uninstalled, upgraded, etc. > > > Amos > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
