Dean Michael Berris: > ok, i don't know much about squid, but i think i can > spot the error > here...
>>On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 22:47, Nathan V. Aceron wrote: >> Starting WWW-proxy squid -Warning: /var/run/squid.pid exists ! >> ........ | Creating Swap Directories > stale .pid files usually occur when the system is > not shut down > properly, or the program that owns the .pid file > inadvertently died on > itself, not allowing it to cleanup and remove the > file. In my experience, unclean shutdowns may corrupt /var/run so much (after a fsck) that I've had to manually delete /var/run and recreate it (rm -fr /var/run && mkdir /var/run). Running with a non-working, or inaccessible /var/run usually leads to programs refusing to start-- seemingly for no reason. I've seen XFree86 complain that it couldn't lock some file in /tmp and refuse to start-- and suddenly run ok when (the root cause, a fscked) /var/run is removed and recreated. JM Ibanez __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
