[squid-users] Problem with Squid3 Caches

[KR]

I uncommented that line and now I get

Initializing the Squid cache with the command squid3 -f /etc/squid/squid.conf -z ..

FATAL: Bungled /etc/squid/squid.conf line 3410: cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
Squid Cache (Version 3.5.12): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.008 seconds = 0.004 user + 0.004 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 114480 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 6



> On Oct 4, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at squid.open.source.it> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 04 October 2016 at 17:00:24, KR wrote:
> 
>> Hello Anthony, Yuri,
>> 
>> It seems every line is commented out in the config?
> 
> Impossible - otherwise it couldn't generate the error message "FATAL: Bungled 
> /etc/squid/squid.conf line 3467: cache_dir rock /ssd3 ..."
> 
> Thta is telling you that line 3467 of squid.conf starts with the directive 
> "cache_dir".
> 
>> This is a fresh install.
> 
> Standard Ubuntu?  Which version?
> 
>> ls -al /ssd3 outputs:
>> 
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Aug 13 18:20 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Oct  3 13:49 ..
> 
> Hm, okay, so that really does exist on your machine, then...
> 
>> Attached are two screenshots that are suspect.
> 
> Er, what are those screenshots of?  It's certainly not the output of Squid, or 
> its config file.
> 
>> Do I need all of these cache folders on every partition?
> 
> You can put your cache directories wherever you like.
> 
>> Ubuntu is running inside of a vm,
> 
> Er, so /ssd3 is not an actual SSD, then?  What is it?
> 
>> default installation method using the setup wizard.
> 
> I'm suspicious that you may be used webmin, and we've had someone here on the 
> list recently who installed Squid on Ubuntu along with webmin, and we then 
> found out that the package maintainer had put the documentation file for 
> squid.conf in place of the actual squid.conf.
> 
> It can still work (not everything is commented out) but it's *far* bigger than 
> it needs to be, and is somewhat confusing to work with.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Antony.
> 
> -- 
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