Re: [squid-users] "squid -z" hangs and does not work

I think it worth to have a more accurate log such as:
no cache_dir or any other more informative msg.
But the basics of squid is that it wont create if none exists in
settings and will show some data when trying to access one.

Eliezer

On 12/24/2012 11:54 AM, Tianyin Xu wrote:
> Jackie, it's not a hang but an exit(). I think that nothing is created
> because you didn't configure cache_dir.
>
> Look at the code in src/store_dir.cc:
>
> 907 void
> 908 StoreHashIndex::create()
> 909 {
> 910 for (int i = 0; i < Config.cacheSwap.n_configured; ++i) {
> 911 if (dir(i).active())
> 912 store(i)->create();
> 913 }
> 914 }
>
> If cache_dir is not configured, nothing will be created. But I think
> this worth to have a patch that print out an accurate log. "Creating
> Swap Directories" gives users the impression of creating something but
> actually it creates nothing.
>
> T
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot, Michael!
>>
>> I installed squid in my home directory. So the user and group should be ok.
>>
>> Yes, I cleaned the directories according to your suggestion. But squid
>> still hangs at the log "kid1| Creating Swap Directories". And it seems
>> that nothing happened after I press enter.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jackie
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot, Michael!
>>>
>>> I installed squid in my home directory. So the user and group should be ok.
>>>
>>> Yes, I cleaned the directories according to your suggestion. But squid
>>> still hangs at the log "kid1| Creating Swap Directories". And it seems
>>> that nothing happened after I press enter.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Jackie
>
>
>

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