On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, OTR Comm wrote: > Hello, > > I am using squid-3.0-PRE3-20031028. > > I get the following message pairs periodically (different process ID > each time) in my syslog: > > Squid Parent: child process 6889 exited due to signal 6 > Squid Parent: child process 8118 started > > and it appears that squid has restarted itself. However, the original > squid process, the one started as root with process ID 6887, remained > active. It is just that all the child processes restarted. > > I hope I have described this clearly! > > Does anyone know what is going on here?
Not completely. Signal 6 should be SIGABORT (check with 'kill -l' on your system). Either someone sent a SIGABORT signal to the process, or more likely this squid process executed the abort() syscall. I would *suspect* the squid process or a library function detected an internal error or illegal situation and executed abort() to kill the process and produce a core dump for debugging. I would *suspect*, that you can get some details about this from squids log files (most notable cache.log). Check there, and if this is not self-explanory recontact this list about it. That's all *I* can tell here, regards, Michael. -- Michael Weller: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
