#5586 Squid not recognised as running since recent update

[Richard Farthing]

Opensuse 15.4 - Squid was updated to squid-5.7-150400.3.6.1.x86_64 on 7th October. Problem occurred after this - not seen as sunning in webmin's squid module or monitor. The squid module config appears to match the running service for location of executable, pid, etc.

[Jamie Cameron]

If you check the configuration page of the Squid module, is the PID file set correctly?

[Richard Farthing]

Thanks. It seems they moved it to a subdirectory /run/squid/squid.pid. It was /var/run/squid.pid. (though /run is symlinked to /var/run). Working now thx

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks, I'll have Webmin look in that directory as well in the next release.

[Richard Farthing]

This issue has resurfaced - see https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2023/suse-ru-20232832-1/
The pidfile is now back in the root of /run
Webmin 2.201 is reporting it's down (OpenSuSe 15.6)
It can be fixed by changing the pid location in the squid control module back to /run/squid.pid

[Ilia Ross]

I checked Webmin's Squid module config in /etc/webmin/squid/config file for OpenSUSE and it seems that we are configuring PID as:

/run/squid/squid.pid

Is this right?

[Richard Farthing]

Not any longer it seems. According to the link above and my experience, it's now just /run/squid.pid, I think perhaps since 15.5. 15.6 is current.

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks, I'll have Webmin look in that directory as well in the next release.