From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: The initscript for squid currently reads something like this: $SQUID $SQUID_OPTS 2> /dev/null This is less than perfect - if squid starts up but dies soon after, nothing will be logged and the end user will be none the wiser as to what went wrong. A good example is if the permissions on the logging directory are wrong and squid is unable to write any log out, or if the file system is full. This output should be logged to a file, say for example /var/log/squid/squid.out Patch attached which changes the init script to resolve this issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.5STABLE3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start squid 2. Silently dies and restarts... 3. Eventually it gives up ;-) Actual Results: Nothing is logged when ideally a console message should be. Expected Results: Console output or alternatively, to a log file.. Additional info:
Created attachment 94594 [details] Patch to replace references to /dev/null to squid.out
A similar patch is included in the latest rawhide squid RPM.