[squid-users] Error starting 3.5.16 on FreeBSD-8.4

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 7 April 2016 at 17:16, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 7/04/2016 3:16 a.m., Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > I am getting the following error in cache.log:
> >
> > Squid Cache (Version 3.5.16): Terminated abnormally.
> > CPU Usage: 0.082 seconds = 0.052 user + 0.030 sys
> > Maximum Resident Size: 54992 KB
> > Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> > FATAL: Ipc::Mem::Segment::create failed to
> > shm_open(/opt/squid-3.5/var/run/squid/cf__metadata.shm): (17) File exists
> >
> >
> > However, that file doesn't exist.
> >
>
> This can happen if you have a startup script the runs 'squid -z' or
> similar just prior to starting the main proxy, and not waiting
> sufficiently long for the -z run to finish.
>
> Amos
>
>
I am gonna check this out again tonight although I doubt if that is the
cause.

I run squid using daemontools, invoked as:

exec setuidgid root /opt/squid-3.5/sbin/squid -f
/opt/squid-3.5/etc/squid.conf -N

/opt/squid-3.5/var/run/squid/ is actually empty when I get this error.








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