Make sure that localhost (127.0.0.1) on that box is able to talk to squid (not blocked by your firewall).
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zack Lawson > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Trouble starting squidGuard through squid > > > I am having quite a bit of trouble getting squidGuard to start through > squid. I am able to start squidGuard manually without any trouble. All > directories and files for squid and squid guard are owned by > squid:squid. I am running squid as user squid, and my > "cache_effective_user" and "cache_effective_group" are set to squid. > > While squid is starting up, it hangs for about 5 minutes when it gets to > the "helperOpenServers: Starting 1 'squidGuard' processes" part. Then > its tells me "WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/local/bin/squidGuard' process." > Then squid loads normally, but without squidGuard. > > I am running squid in "transparent" mode and without caching ... proxy > only. Would this have any effect? > > The system and version information is as follows : > > OS: Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) > Kernel: 2.4.17 > squid: squid-2.5.STABLE2 > squidGuard: squidGuard-1.2.0 > BerkleyDB: db-3.2.9 > > The redirector line in my squid.conf is as follows: > redirect_program /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c > /usr/local/squid/etc/squidGuard.conf > > Following is an section from the squid log on the server: > > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3746]: Squid Parent: child process 3748 > started > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Starting Squid Cache version > 2.5.STABLE2 for i686-pc-linux-gnu... > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Process ID 3748 > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: With 1024 file descriptors > available > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Performing DNS Tests... > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Successful DNS name lookup tests... > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port > 1611, FD 5 > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Adding nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > from /etc/resolv.conf > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Adding nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > from /etc/resolv.conf > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Adding nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > from /etc/resolv.conf > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: Adding nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > from /etc/resolv.conf > Mar 25 17:01:00 orbital squid[3748]: helperOpenServers: Starting 1 > 'squidGuard' processes > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: WARNING: Cannot run > '/usr/local/bin/squidGuard' process. > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Swap maxSize 0 KB, estimated 0 > objects > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Target number of buckets: 0 > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Using 8192 Store buckets > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Max Mem size: 8192 KB > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Max Swap size: 0 KB > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Using Least Load store dir > selection > Mar 25 17:04:09 orbital squid[3748]: Set Current Directory to > /usr/local/squid/var/cache > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Loaded Icons. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Accepting HTTP connections at > 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 9. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: WCCP Disabled. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Ready to serve requests. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Finished rebuilding storage from > disk. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Entries scanned > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Invalid entries. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 With invalid flags. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Objects loaded. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Objects expired. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Objects cancelled. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Duplicate URLs purged. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Took 0.0 seconds ( 0.0 > objects/sec). > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Beginning Validation Procedure > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Completed Validation Procedure > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: Validated 0 Entries > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: store_swap_size = 0k > Mar 25 17:04:10 orbital squid[3748]: storeLateRelease: released 0 > objects > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Preparing for shutdown after 0 > requests > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Waiting 30 seconds for active > connections to finish > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: FD 9 Closing HTTP connection > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Shutting down... > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Closing unlinkd pipe on FD 10 > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Finished. Wrote 0 entries. > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Took 0.0 seconds ( 0.0 > entries/sec). > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3748]: Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE2): > Exiting normally. > Mar 25 17:19:01 orbital squid[3746]: Squid Parent: child process 3748 > exited with status 0 > > I would include logs from squidGuard itself, but when started through > squid it does not log at all. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Zack Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Einstein Industries Inc. > >
