Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.7STABLE8 for windows hang.

Ah, okay.

I have figured it out, when I don't set cache_log to /dev/null, it
works perfectly, but my intention is to get output to STDERR instead.

I would never thought this would be the problem!

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 15/04/11 16:08, Outofwall.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to use SQUID 2.7STABLE8 for windows, but however it hangs
>> on several machines. As far as I can tell, they all hanged after
>> "Referer logging is disabled."
>>
>> Here's the log:
>>
>> [2] Launched.
>> [2]:/dev/null
>> [2]:: No such file or directory
>> [2]:WARNING: Cannot write log file: /dev/null
>> [2]: messages will be sent to 'stderr'.
>
> That would be the start of the problem. As soon as logging is started
> properly the rest of the actions and helpful information on whatever the
> hang is caused by will be logged somewhere you cant read.
>
> Look for cache_log directive in your squid.conf and set it to an actual
> file. This is not an optional log.
>
> It depends on what you mean by "hang" though. Squid stopped responding?
>
> Be aware that during normal operation with the default "debug_options ALL,0"
> nothing gets logged to cache.log except major events
> (startup/reconfigure/rotate) and critical problems.
>  Sometimes we have marked something wrongly as critical, this is a bug.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.12
>  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.6
>
Received on Fri Apr 15 2011 - 06:12:36 MDT