My first attempt at installing squid - a single instance worked exactly as advertised - when trying to run multiple instances I get incorrect pid numbers in pid files. Squid 3.1 running on CentOS6.2 - (I work in a school, different web filters for different age groups)

exec /usr/sbin/squid -f /etc/squid/squidl.conf
exec /usr/sbin/squid -f /etc/squid/squidm.conf
exec /usr/sbin/squid -f /etc/squid/squids.conf

[root@CentOS62 internet]# service squid status
sed: can't read /etc/squid/squid.conf: No such file or directory
squid (pid 2696 2691 2685) is running...
FATAL: Unable to open configuration file: /etc/squid/squid.conf: (2) No such file or directory

[root@CentOS62 run]# cat squids.pid
2698
[root@CentOS62 run]# cat squidm.pid
2693
[root@CentOS62 run]# cat squidl.pid
2687

Has anyone seen this ?

#
# squidm.conf - Middle School Proxy Port 8082
#
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1

acl myNet src 10.11.96.0/21

acl SSL_ports port 443
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl Safe_ports port 1433 # Target Tracker

acl CONNECT method CONNECT

http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager

http_access deny !Safe_ports

http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports

# http_access deny to_localhost

http_access allow myNet
http_access allow localhost

http_access deny all

http_port 10.11.103.248:8082

hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?

cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squidm 30000 16 256
maximum_object_size 1 GB

coredump_dir /var/spool/squidm

refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320

dns_nameservers 10.208.3.11 10.208.3.12
visible_hostname CentOS62m.localdomain
unique_hostname CentOS62m.localdomain
cache_peer 10.208.3.20 parent 8082 0 no-query default no-digest
cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid
never_direct allow myNet
pid_filename /var/run/squidm.pid
cache_log /var/log/squid/cachem.log
access_log /var/log/squid/accessm.log

Well I imagine the pids you are finding with cat are child processes spawned by the squid parent process. The conf file error is due to it being hard-coded to the /etc/init.d/squid file which is why you are using the -f flag to specify it. I don't really see any issues here.

Do a

and see if the PPID(Parent Process ID) matches up as I suspect it does.

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Thanks, once I knew what was going on, I figured out what I needed to do to get the -k options to work ie
Thanks again