[CentOS] since CentOS 5.6 upgrade, squid crashes

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue May 10 09:26:15 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 04:51 PM, Brandon Ooi wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
> <mailto:christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>> wrote:
>
>     On Monday, May 09, 2011 10:28 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>      > Laurent CREPET wrote:
>      >> On Mon, 9 May 2011 05:20:48 -0700 (PDT)
>      >> John Doe<jdmls at yahoo.com <mailto:jdmls at yahoo.com>>  wrote:
>      >>
>      >>> From: Laurent CREPET<lct at megrapet.fr <mailto:lct at megrapet.fr>>
>      >>>
>      >>>> Today, squid crashed  again.
>      >>> Maybe ask on the squid mailing list, they might have more
>     insight...
>      >>>
>      >>> JD
>      >>
>      >> No need, I have plugged my brain today. Check my latest e-mail
>     (squid does not like temporary filesystem full in /var/log/squid) ;-)
>      >>
>      >> No link with 5.6 upgrade at all.
>      >
>      > Maybe /var/cache/yum was not cleaned of downloaded rpms after
>     upgrade to
>      > 5.6? so /var partition run out of space or helped with out of space
>      > issue just enough to put it over the top.
>      >
>
>     Or maybe it was stuffed with squid reports...
>
>
> a whole week of troubleshooting and you didn't check /var/log/messages?
>   comon man.
>
> When I visit servers to make changes, I almost always check
> /var/log/messages and dmesg for latent errors or other issues that I can
> proactively solve. This should be sysadmin 101 :P
>

Nevermind having basic monitoring in place to check current status of 
various resources or allocating disk space for the sole use of squid 
or...hey Brandon, what else should be sysadmin 101?



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