Re: [squid-users] FATAL: Failed to start any dnsservers

Umm, I sort of agree with Josef, however even if the dns server is envoked
from the console then it should not make a difference...

Regards,

Thomas Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Rolph <w-rolph@ds.mc.ti.com>
To: n6tadam <n6tadam@users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk>
Cc: Josef Hauern <linux@gabo.de>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] FATAL: Failed to start any dnsservers

> Quick queston. Did you have configured as dns servers for checking at
start up?
> Were these servers accessible to your proxy server?
>
> If not, then the dns server startup may fail.
>
> Also. the cache will refresh properly if the originating site has
configured its expirations properly. The cache also gets reloaded (and
obsolete pages deleted) if the user hits the reload key.
>
> n6tadam wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Josef Hauern <linux@gabo.de>
> > To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:05 PM
> > Subject: [squid-users] FATAL: Failed to start any dnsservers
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i have suse 6.1 and squid version 1.novm22 on my testserver.
> > > i got the error: FATAL Failed to start any dnsservers
> > > when i start squid.
> > >
> > > i thought this would be a permission problem. so i looked to the
> > permission
> > > of
> > > /usr/sbin/dnsserver > -rwxr-xr-x
> > > but the permission settings are also ok.
> > >
> > > could you give me an advice?
> >
> > Have you tried setting setting the Group that the file belongs to? Make
sure
> > that the owner is root.
> >
> > > another question:
> > > on our working proxyserver there some old contents of pages in the
cache.
> > so
> > > if a web-site changes the layout or the contents our proxyserver does
not
> > > change the contents of it4s cache . my only choice is to rebuild the
cache
> > > with squid -z. is there any other choice to let squid look after
several
> > > period of time to delete the old contents of it4s cache?
> >
> > You could write a cron job which then executes a shell script that would
> > periodically (depending upon the time you specify in the cron job)
delete
> > the contents of the cache, thus:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > cd /var/squid/cache
> > rm -f *
> >
> > If you saved this script as "cacheclear" in your "/usr/bin" folder and
then
> > type in:
> >
> > chmod 700 /usr/bin/cacheclear
> >
> > and then run it, this will clear you cache
> >
> > does this help?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Thomas Adam
> >
> > > thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > josef
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the
original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not
an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly
disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender.
> >
> > If you have any complaints about this message please reply to:
> > office@purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
> >
> > The Purbeck School E-Mail server running:
> > users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
>
> --
>
> Regards.
>
> Don Rolph w-rolph@ds.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-236-1263
>
>

Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender.

If you have any complaints about this message please reply to:
       office@purbeck.dorset.sch.uk

The Purbeck School E-Mail server running:
       users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk
Received on Thu Apr 05 2001 - 06:32:23 MDT