[squid-users] Squid automatic startup issues

I am running squid 2.6 on a RedHat Enterprise box in my DMZ. If point my
public addresses to secondary non-routable IP addresses on the NIC of the
Linux box via ACL's on my firewall. From there, requests are filtered into
my internal web servers in regards to the non-routable IP the request is
coming from.

I have having an issue where my squid reverse proxy will only function
correctly if I open a terminal window and start the squid process with
/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -NCd1. My webpages will work correctly from
this point on and I notice it starts with only one process id when I do it
this way.

However, if I use the actual squid service in the System Tools instead of
using the command line, I see that it always starts with 2 process ids and
my webpages will not work. I get page not found and no traffic shows up in
my access.log file.

I need this service to start automatically and function because the Linux
box is rebooted after hours once every week. It rebooted last night and I
came in this morning to find that the websites were down so I ran the squid
startup command manually and everything returned to normal. I tried using
the squid service itself, which started normally even on reboot, but the
websites would not work until I shut off the squid service and ran the
startup command normally.

If there are any ideas as to how I can resolve this issue and have squid
startup automatically, I would appreciate the help. I am not an expert at
Linux so please feel free to explain things in a more detailed manner if
need be.

Thanks in advance,

Jack Siergiej, MCSA

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Received on Thu Feb 08 2007 - 05:39:19 MST