Re: [squid-users] COSS problem on Squid 2.6.Stable19

da duy wrote:
> Dear Squid-Users,
>
> I'm currently having problem installing squid on Ubuntu 7.10, i;ve compiled them with this option:
>
> sudo ./configure --enable-storeio=coss,ufs,aufs,diskd -with-large-files --enable-delay-pools --enable-snmp --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru --enable-auth=ntlm,basic --enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group
>
> i create the cache file first with these command:
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/sda bs=1048576 count=5000 of=/usr/local/squid/var/cache
>

So this file is owned by root. Likely it's not group or world writable
(it shouldn't be), so Squid can't modify it.

> and i add these line to squid.conf:
>
> cache_dir coss /usr/local/squid/var/cache 5000 block-size=512 max-size=524288
> cache_swap_log /usr/local/squid/%s
>
> when i run sudo squid -k parse everything is fine, but when i run sudo squid -z i get this:
>
> 2008/04/04 21:46:04| Creating Swap Directories
> FATAL: Failed to create COSS stripe /usr/local/squid/var/cache
>

Yup. Give the cache_effective_user ownership of this file and try again.

> Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE19): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.010 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 0
>
> i've tried googling but could not get an explanation of the case, any help would really be appreciated,
>
> thank and regards,
> Yudi

Chris
Received on Fri Apr 04 2008 - 13:12:35 MDT