Re: starting squid automatically as a different user

        Hi,
        
        
        1- Create a group and a user named both squid. (remember to not give
login permition for the squid user)
        2- Set option cache_effective_user to squid squid in squid.conf
        
        Bye,
        
        Alexandre Almeida
>
> Hi all,
> I am running squid on my redhat Linux 5.0 box. But everytime I have to run
> it manually whenever i start up the machine. What should i do so that it
> will run automatically as soon as i start up the machine with a user
> different than the root. As i tried to run it by putting some commands in
> rc.local file but it gave errors regarding running squid as a root. So what
> needs to be done so that squid will run as a different user at the time of
> boot-up.
>
> Umang
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 23 1999 - 07:39:17 MST