Squid problems - The redirector helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!

[ranj]

Dear All

 

I have come in this morning to find our local proxy is giving a few errors and not allowing us to access the web through it. If we bypass the proxy everything is fine.

 

If I check the status using tail -f /var/log/critical/current. It comes up saying the following

 

"The redirector helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!"

 

I have checked the status also in webmin under system status and squid proxy is down and if I try to start the squid service up again, it just fails and remains on start squid.

 

I thought it may be an issue with the cache and logs becoming huge so also deleted those but this doesn't seem to have resolved the problem. I have also restarted it.

 

Can you help?

[dhicks]

I thought it may be an issue with the cache and logs becoming huge so also deleted those

 

You remembered to re-create them afterwards and make sure they had correct ownership rights?

 

rm access.log

touch access.log

chown nobody access.log

chgrp nogroup access.log

 

Same for cache.log, store.log.

 

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David Hicks