Squid question in FC3

[Paul Howarth]

Chris wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. It seems that I should have not check that check box when
> installing FC3...
> 
> The reason is that I want to make Apache faster by using Squid together with shm... I
> setup a TWiki using Apache with mod_perl, but I still feel that the speed is not so
> ideal. So I want to mount shm to tmp, so that not only the perl scripts (TWiki) can run
> faster, PHP scripts (which may use /tmp) can also run faster... I tried to mount shm to
> /var/spool/squid, but it won't work either, it gives following error instead:
> 
> Feb 25 00:52:32 eden squid: Failed to make swap directory /var/spool/squid: (17) File
> exists
> 
> but in fact, no file is in the mounted dir or the real dir...

Not the error message I'd have expected, but could you try running:

# restorecon -R /var/spool/squid

after mounting /var/spool/squid and see if that helps?

Paul.