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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?

Petrus
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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
Mike
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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

Mike
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