RE: [squid-users] Can't create swap space

 
>
> Hi!
>
> My name is Thomas Bitschnau and I am doing a work on squid for my
> studies at the moment.
> The first step in this work is to get squid to work. I am
> using "Squid -
> The definitive guide" released by O'Reilly to manage this.
>
> I created a user "squid" and a group "squid" on my home
> machine (Fedora
> Linux Core 3). I changed permission on my */squid/var/
> directory to the
> former written user, as you can see below:
>
> root@BearKnuckle:/home/thomas/squid# ls -la var/
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:06 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 4096 Dec 21 10:13 cache
> drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 4096 Dec 15 14:54 logs
>
> If I try to create the cache using "squid -zX" as root, this
> is (a part)
> of the output:
>
> 2004/12/21 12:35:48| leave_suid: PID 5113 called
> 2004/12/21 12:35:48| leave_suid: PID 5113 giving up root, becoming
> 'squid'
> 2004/12/21 12:35:48| Creating Swap Directories
> 2004/12/21 12:35:48| Creating swap space in
> /home/thomas/squid/var/cache
> FATAL: Failed to make swap directory
> /home/thomas/squid/var/cache: (13)
> Permission denied
> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE7): Terminated abnormally.
>
> I located the squid installation at /usr/local/squid, but the
> cache and
> the config location in my home directory.
>
> In squid.conf "cache_effective_user" is set to "squid".
>
> I am at one's wits' end now and don't know what to try any further.
>
 
 How did you set :

     cache_effective_group
 
 M.
Received on Tue Dec 21 2004 - 04:58:11 MST