I made changes in "/etc/default/varnish" as well as the vcl file "/etc/varnish/default.vcl" and therefore want to restart varnish.
But I'm unable to figure out what's wrong. Already spent more than an hour lookijng into it but no luck. Following are the details:
nish@styx:~$ sudo service varnish restart
[sudo] password for nish:
* Stopping HTTP accelerator varnishd [fail]
* Starting HTTP accelerator varnishd [fail]
Too many arguments (\...)
usage: varnishd [options]
-a address:port # HTTP listen address and port
-b address:port # backend address and port
# -b <hostname_or_IP>
# -b '<hostname_or_IP>:<port_or_service>'
-C # print VCL code compiled to C language
-d # debug
-f file # VCL script
-F # Run in foreground
-h kind[,hashoptions] # Hash specification
# -h critbit [default]
# -h simple_list
# -h classic
# -h classic,<buckets>
-i identity # Identity of varnish instance
-l shl,free,fill # Size of shared memory file
# shl: space for SHL records [80m]
# free: space for other allocations [1m]
# fill: prefill new file [+]
-M address:port # Reverse CLI destination.
-n dir # varnishd working directory
-P file # PID file
-p param=value # set parameter
-s kind[,storageoptions] # Backend storage specification
# -s malloc
# -s file [default: use /tmp]
# -s file,<dir_or_file>
# -s file,<dir_or_file>,<size>
# -s persist{experimenta}
# -s file,<dir_or_file>,<size>,<granularity>
-t # Default TTL
-S secret-file # Secret file for CLI authentication
-T address:port # Telnet listen address and port
-V # version
-w int[,int[,int]] # Number of worker threads
# -w <fixed_count>
# -w min,max
# -w min,max,timeout [default: -w2,500,300]
-u user # Priviledge separation user id
Fixed the problem by removing line breaks from the "/etc/default/varnish" file.
DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
-T localhost:1234 \
-f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
-s malloc,256m"
to
DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 -T localhost:1234 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -s malloc,256m"