RE: squid error (fwd)

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

you need to change the owner of the /usr/local/squid/cache and 
cache1 directories from root (presumably what it is currently) to squid 
so that squid cache write into the directories...

joelja

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Fisayo Adeleke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your previous reply, i have changed the effective user and group to read squid and the previous error seems to have been solved but now i have this error when i try to run this command:
> 
>  /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -z
> 
> 
> 
> 2002/06/10 20:42:25| Creating Swap Directories
> FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/cache: (13) 
> Permission denied
> Squid Cache (Version 2.4.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 11
> FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/cache1: (13) 
> Permission denied
> Squid Cache (Version 2.4.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 11
> 
> 
> how can i get around this ... i want no errors!
> 
> -fisayo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:24 PM
> To: afnog at afnog.org; Fisayo Adeleke
> Subject: Re: squid error (fwd)
> 
> 
> add a group called nogroup to your /etc/group file, or better yet create a 
> squid user and group and set the cache  effedctive user and group in the 
> squid.conf to squid.  
> 
> that way your squid app runs in it's own sandbox...
> 
> joelja
> 
>  On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Steven G. Huter wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:10:33 GMT+1
> > From: Fisayo Adeleke <fisayo at steineng.com>
> > To: afnog at afnog.org
> > Subject: squid error
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am just trying to setup squid on my linux box but i get this
> > error message when i try to initialize the cache. I undersatnd the
> > english there but how can i solve it?
> > 
> > 
> > FATAL: getgrnam failed to find groupid for effective group 'nogroup'
> > Squid Cache (Version 2.4.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally.
> > CPU Usage: 0.030 seconds = 0.020 user + 0.010 sys
> > Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> > Page faults with physical i/o: 303
> > Aborted (core dumped)
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > -fisayo
> > 
> > 
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