From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020724 Description of problem: The /etc/sysconfig/squid file does not specify the variable SQUID_PIDFILE_TIMEOUT. This variable is expected by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid startscript. The startscript does not provide any default so a shell syntax error message occurs when the script is run with "start" as the first parameter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.STABLE7-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Be root and RPM-install squid from the "limbo" distribution. 2.Type `/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid start' Actual Results: Error message seen, "/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid: line 65: [: 0: unary operator expected". Expected Results: No such error message. Additional info: Workaround: Append something like "SQUID_PIDFILE_TIMEOUT=3600" to /etc/sysconfig/squid. To fix the bug it may be a good idea to make the /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid script permissive so that if the variable is not specified in /etc/sysconfig/squid it will be automatically declared and given a reasonable default value. I am leaving the severity as "normal" since I have not investigated what the consequences of the bug really are. Perhaps the severity could be "low"; at least it seems that the squid process starts and can be stopped in an orderly fashion even if the workaround is not applied.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70065 ***