I have just installed squid on another machine and have gotten a error message that i have never seen before. Here is the error

[root@server root]# vi /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf
[root@server root]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z
2004/03/09 00:02:32| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/var/cache/00/05: (13) Permission denied
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 10
[root@server root]# cd /usr/local/squid/var/cache/00/
[root@server 00]# ls
00 01 02 03 04
[root@server 00]# mkdir 05
[root@server 00]# cd
[root@server root]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z
2004/03/09 00:03:22| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/var/cache/00/06: (13) Permission denied
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 10
[root@server root]#


[root@server root]# vi /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf
[root@server root]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z
2004/03/09 00:02:32| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/var/cache/00/05: (13) Permission denied
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 10
[root@server root]# cd /usr/local/squid/var/cache/00/
[root@server 00]# ls
00 01 02 03 04
[root@server 00]# mkdir 05
[root@server 00]# cd
[root@server root]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z
2004/03/09 00:03:22| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/var/cache/00/06: (13) Permission denied
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 10
[root@server root]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -NCd1
WARNING: Cannot write log file: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log
/usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log: Permission denied
messages will be sent to 'stderr'.
2004/03/09 00:11:30| WARNING: Closing open FD 2
2004/03/09 00:11:30| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE4 for i586-pc-linux-gnu...
2004/03/09 00:11:30| Process ID 2411
2004/03/09 00:11:30| With 1024 file descriptors available
2004/03/09 00:11:30| Performing DNS Tests...
2004/03/09 00:11:30| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2004/03/09 00:11:30| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 1027, FD 3
2004/03/09 00:11:30| Adding nameserver 207.69.188.187 from /etc/resolv.conf
2004/03/09 00:11:30| Adding nameserver 207.69.188.186 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 'squidadm', which is the cache_effective_user
set in squid.conf.
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.050 seconds = 0.040 user + 0.010 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 287
Aborted
[root@server root]# cd /usr/local/squid/var/logs/
[root@server logs]# ls
[root@server var]# ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 7 23:07 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 20:52 logs


How many of these swap directorys do I need? Also how do I change the folder so a use "squidadm" can write to it? I am not sure whats up. I can not start squid yet.

Don't know if you have solved your problem yet.

do "ls -al /usr/local/squid/var/cache"
u should see something like

drwxr-xr-x 18 squid squid ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root ../
drwxr-xr-x 258 squid squid 00/
drwxr-xr-x 258 squid squid 01/
drwxr-xr-x 258 squid squid 02/
[etc]

if you don't see the name of the correct user (in this example, squid) next to the current directory (./) and sub directories, you need to change the owner. "chown squid.squid ./" (as root)

the format is "chown user.group foldername" (or filename)

If the user is not correct that is why you are getting the access denied errors. HTH

hmm i have no user group squid ...

i have tried almost all the faq's and forums i can find this doesnt seem to fix the problem .....

any help here is the error msg one more time btw its the only one i get as opposed to the earlier post

/usr/local/squid/sbin# ./squid -z
2004/04/29 22:39:16| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/var/cache: (13) Permission denied
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE5): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys

don't know whether your problem has been solved or not still if it can help some one else.

in squid.conf file, change value of "cache_effective_user" to squid (or some thing else). this is the user that squid runs as. also do a chown squid /usr/local/squid/* as well.