Re: new squid user! Help

From: Andrey Movchan <movchan@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:03:08 +0700

    Hello, Francois.

    Look at http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.22
Andrey.

----- Original Message -----
From: Francois Prowse <fprowse@uk5.web.wcom.net>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:17 PM
Subject: new squid user! Help

> Hello all.....
>
> I have been playing around with squid this morning and am having
> a few problems, it does not appear to be as staightforward as the
> docs would suggest. Then again I presume its just my stupidity.
>
> I downloaded the latest 2.2 Stable source and compiled and installed
> as per the usual method. This was all done as a new user called squid
> which was created before install.
>
> Now when I run /usr/local/squid/bin/RunCache & I get the following
> error message.
>
> -----
> bash: /usr/local/bin/squid: No such file or directory
> mainbeach:/usr/local/squid/bin# /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -z
> 1999/05/13 11:47:49| Creating Swap Directories
> FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/cache: (13)
Permission
> denied
> Squid Cache (Version 2.2.STABLE2): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 186
> -----
>
> Obviously I (the squid user) dosn't have permission to create the
> directories, although
> it would appear to when doing a ls -l on /usr/local/squid
>
> Any help greatly appreciated....
>
> Cheers
>
> Francois Prowse
>
>
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 18:40:14 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:46:17 MST