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I can confirm that the logrotate test fails if squid is not running, and agree that this is a bug. Unfortunately I can't find a good reference to point to in order to declare that squid should be cleaning its pid file and that it is not, although my understand has also always been that daemons should do this when they can. I've found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688343 /reference-for-proper-handling-of-pid-file-on-unix and http://perfec.to/stalepid.html both of which indicate that it is a good thing to do, but there doesn't seem to be any definitive reference for this. I think an easier fix would be to adjust squid's logrotate configuration to test for the process before calling "squid3 -k rotate". Could you try this as a workaround? In /etc/logrotate.d/squid3, replace the postrotate line: test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate with: test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || ! kill -0 `cat /var/run/squid3.pid` 2>/dev/null || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of AIMS, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073478 Title: squid3 logrotate fails when squid is not running Status in “squid3” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Squid3 on Precise does not clean up its PID file, causing logrotate to spit out an error each night when cron runs it. This is on a server where we want squid3 installed and ready to go but not running by default. 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#start squid3 squid3 start/running, process 10392 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#cat /var/run/squid3.pid 10392 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#stop squid3 squid3 stop/waiting 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#cat /var/run/squid3.pid 10392 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/squid3 squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 10 to process 10392: (3) No such process error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/squid3/*.log ' 1 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql#dpkg -l squid3 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-========================================-========================================-================================================================================================ ii squid3 3.1.19-1ubuntu3.12.04.1 Full featured Web Proxy cache (HTTP proxy) 0 root@rackspace:/etc/mysql# To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid3/+bug/1073478/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~aims Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~aims More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
