Thanks! The logrotate script comes from Debian, so it would be best to file a bug in Debian to get this fixed at the source. I'm pretty sure that sysv init would be affected by this too.
** Tags added: needs-upstream-report -- 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
