[plug] Squid config

[Tony Clark]

Think you had better make them owned by squid:squid...It doesn't run as root.

At 08:55 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On  0, Brad Campbell <brad at seme.com.au> wrote:
>> Subba Rao wrote:
>> > 
>> > I am trying to configure Squid to work on my system for web caching.
>> > I followed the document QUICKSTART that came with the source. My
domainname
>> > is a private domain name. When I try to start squid I get the following
>> > error message:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > The cache_peer values have the following settings.
>> > 
>> > cache_peer myhost.mydomain.com     parent    3128  3130  [proxy-only]
>> > cache_peer myhost1.mydomain.com     sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
>> > cache_peer myhost2.mydomain.com   sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
>> > cache_peer myhost3.mydomain.com      sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
>> > cache_peer myhost4.mydomain.com   sibling   3128  3130  [proxy-only]
>> > 
>> > I don't know if this is the right setting for cache_peer.
>> > Any input from squid admins appreciated.
>> 
>> Try getting rid of the square brackets around the proxy-only..
>> I seem to remember that cured my problem.
>> Generally, when looking at a config line, the [ ] means that
>> is an optional statement, not to put [ ] around the statement..
>> 
>> 
>
>Thanks for replying. I removed the [proxy-only] flags for cache_peer.
>Now when I try to start squid, I get this error,
>
>(0)root at myhost:~ => /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -z
>2000/02/15 08:50:42| Creating Swap Directories
>FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /var/squid/cache/00: (13) Permission
denied
>
>I looked at the directory permissions they are set to rwxr-xr-x and owned by
>root:root.
>
>Subba Rao
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