Memcached is not launching

Question

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?

Solution

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

Comments

[Spechal]

dos2unix resolved my problem