Re: Running Squid as root

You will want to do

chown -R squiduser:squidgroup /usr/local/squid/logs /usr/local/squid/cache

Dax Kelson
Internet Connect, Inc.

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Woifi wrote:

> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:45:24 +0100 (MEZ)
> From: Woifi <mader@telecom.at>
> To: ttecisd@trinidad.net
> Cc: squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: Re: Running Squid as root
> Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:48:23 -0800 (PST)
> Resent-From: squid-users@nlanr.net
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 ttecisd@trinidad.net wrote:
>
> Squid starts as root and is switching to cache_effective_user after.
> Where is the problem to start it at boot?
> Just use Crontab or /../rc3.d
>
> Yours, Woifi.
>
> > I have just installed squid and it run fine. Only thing is that I can't
> > seem to run it as root. Since I would like to start it when the machine
> > boots, this is desirable. How can I do this ? I keep getting error
> > messages about can't open /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log , access.log.
> >
> > Eric Headley
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 04 1998 - 16:12:30 MST