Fwd: [squid-users] permission denied cache

i've asked to be removed countless times. here's another message that
i didn't want. it's really not that hard to remove somebody is it...

This is a forwarded message
From: Elsen Marc <elsen@imec.be>
To: "Basisschool hillegem" <school_hillegem@hotmail.com>, squid-users@squid-cache.org
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 7:06:08 AM
Subject: [squid-users] permission denied cache

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>
> I downloaded the 2.5 Stable source and compiled and installed=20
> as per the usual method. This was all done as a new user
> called squid=20
> which was created before install.
>
> when i run squid -z I get the classical error:
> 2004/01/28 10:15:30| Creating Swap Directories
> FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /usr/local/squid/cache:
> (13) Permission
> denied
> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds =3D 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 13
>
> I lookt it up and i found some solutios:
> change the owner of the cache and logs directory.
> i.e. # chown -R nobody.nogroup /usr/local/squid/cache
> # chown -R nobody.nogroup /usr/local/squid/logs
>
> did not work.
>
>

 If your cache_effective_user and group is 'squid' then those
 directories must be owned by 'squid'.

 M.

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