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Petrus
Asked: 2011-01-29 08:06:43 +0800 CST

Memcached is not launching

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I just installed memcached and the memcache pecl extension. Now randomly I cannot get it to start. When I run service memcached start I get this:

Starting memcached: chown: `memcached\r': invalid user
 to switch toe user memcached
 [FAILED]

What is going on? As far as I know, I performed the installation correctly. In fact, it was running fine but must have randomly stopped...? Im running RedHat x86_64 es5.

EDIT: maybe I am doing this wrong. What command do I need to run to check if memcached is running?

linux redhat boot memcached start

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    first make sure you have the memcache user

    id memcached

    you have an error in your config.. looks like a dos line breaks.. Run the following command over the memcache sysconfig script

    dos2unix /etc/sysconfig/memcached
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  2. How did you install memcached?

    You should be able to run:

    service memcached status

    or

    lsof -i :11211

    or

    ps -ef | grep memcache

    to see if it's running.

    Cheers

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