squid not starting

[Guillermo Garron]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Siggy Brentrup<ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 15:07 -0700, Admin wrote:
>> HI there,
>>
>> squid is not starting and I am trying to figure out why?  What are some
>> of my first steps?
>>
>>
>> # /etc/init.d/squid start
>>   * Starting Squid HTTP proxy squid
>>    [fail]
>
> As always, look into the logs.  I'm unsure where they are in
> Ubuntu, my proxy box runs Debian lenny.
>
> % ssh proxy sudo ls -l /var/log/squid\*
> total 812
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy  16818 Jun 12 16:16 access.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy  21215 Jun 12 08:28 access.log.2.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy    302 Aug  7 06:37 cache.log
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy   7406 Aug  6 07:17 cache.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy    436 Aug  6 04:25 cache.log.2.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy 334419 Aug  8 00:33 store.log
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy 330944 Aug  7 06:24 store.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy  75061 Aug  6 06:26 store.log.2.gz
>
> you might find an error.log, I'm not sure about this either.

You may also check

/var/log/messages

post the output here, try this.

cat /var/log/messages | grep squid

regards,

Guillermo.
PS. Not sure that you will find messages of squid there, but it worth a try.
>
> HTH
>  Siggy
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