swap in squid

alvi2 · 09-26-2005, 07:28 PM

i am using redhat 9
i compiled the squid 2.5 stable 11
now i give the permission to swap or cache dir as

chown root : root /var/spool/squid
chmod 770 /var/spool/squid

similarly dis it for /var/log

now when ever i try this
squid -z

i find this error

2005/09/27 05:00:12| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /var/spool/squid/00: (13) Permission deniedSquid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE11): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 6
Aborted

so i cant understand what type of permission this squid version wants

win32sux · 09-26-2005, 08:13 PM

squid needs to have permissions as the user it is running as... by default i think the user is "nobody"... but it's much better if you add a "squid" user and a "squid" group with a non-login shell:

Code:

groupadd squid

useradd -g squid -d /var/spool/squid -s /bin/false squid

then make sure your squid directories' permissions are set:

Code:

chown -R squid:squid /var/spool/squid

chmod 750 /var/spool/squid

and make sure in your squid.conf you are specifying that the user and group for squid to be run as is squid:squid... the two options in the squid.conf file should look like:

Code:

cache_effective_user squid

cache_effective_group squid

after you've made sure you have everything set-up correctly, then you can go ahead and execute "squid -z":

Code:

squid -z