Hello brothers i am new to linux and to this site as well . I would inshallah participate here according to my knowledge . But at the momet i have a problem i compiled squid when configureing it gives me the following error .

WARNING: Cannot write log file: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log
/usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log: Is a directory
messages will be sent to 'stderr'.
2006/09/02 06:44:36| WARNING: Closing open FD 2
2006/09/02 06:44:36| Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE3 for i686-pc-linux-gnu...
2006/09/02 06:44:36| Process ID 25599
2006/09/02 06:44:36| With 1024 file descriptors available
2006/09/02 06:44:36| Using epoll for the IO loop
2006/09/02 06:44:36| Performing DNS Tests...
2006/09/02 06:44:36| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2006/09/02 06:44:36| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32769, FD 4
2006/09/02 06:44:36| Adding nameserver 203.135.0.2 from /etc/resolv.conf
FATAL: Cannot open '/usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log' for writing.
The parent directory must be writeable by the
user 'squid', which is the cache_effective_user
set in squid.conf.
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE3): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.027 seconds = 0.011 user + 0.016 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
Aborted (core dumped)



Please help me I will be thankful to you


Regards

Yousafzai

According to the output you have, there are 2 problems. Firstly, it says that /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log is a directory - it should be a file. You could try rmdir /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log

Secondly, do you have the correct ownership of files/directories? It says that it cannot open '/usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log' for writing and that the parent directory must be writeable by the user 'squid'. You could try chown -R squid /usr/local/squid