Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
squid-2.6.STABLE17-1.fc8

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. service squid start
2.
3.
  

Actual results:
[root@dev-mk squid]# service squid start
init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/init.d/squid: line 65: 19712 Aborted   
             $SQUID -z -F -D >> /var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1
Starting squid: /etc/init.d/squid: line 62: 19713 Aborted                 $SQUID
$SQUID_OPTS >> /var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1
                                                           [FAILED]


Expected results:
The squid start script should run "squid -k parse" and show its output and only
attempt to start squid if it returns successfully

In my case it would have shown the following and helped me:
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname.  Please set 'visible_hostname'
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE17): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.006 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.003 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
Aborted


Additional info:
Error messages could be found in /var/log/squid/squid.out - but it isn't obvious
to look there.

The reason of this was that I tested on a machine without hostname in hosts, so
that hostname -s returned
hostname: Unknown host
and squid failed with 
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname.  Please set 'visible_hostname'