Squid not runing as configured

greetings:

I have just installed 'squid' and set the 'cache_effective_user and
cache_effective_group' both to nobody. Squid starts up ok and the logs sho
wno errors but when I do a 'ps' command I see 3 processes. One process
says 'nobody' as the user but the process command it says its running is
'(unlinked)'. The other 2 processes seem to be squid parent and child BUT
running as 'root'.

Is there an explanation for this?

I have included below my cache.log and the output of my Unix 'ps' command.

Thanks Jim

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2000/02/18 13:44:08| Starting Squid Cache version 2.3.STABLE1 for
powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0...
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Process ID 8804
2000/02/18 13:44:08| With 32768 file descriptors available
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Performing DNS Tests...
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2000/02/18 13:44:08| DNS Socket created on FD 1
2000/02/18 13:44:08| idnsParseResolvConf: nameserver x.x.x.x
2000/02/18 13:44:08| idnsAddNameserver: Added nameserver #0: x.x.x.x
2000/02/18 13:44:08| idnsParseResolvConf: nameserver y.y.y.y
2000/02/18 13:44:08| idnsAddNameserver: Added nameserver #1: y.y.y.y

2000/02/18 13:44:08| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 6

2000/02/18 13:44:08| Swap maxSize 51200 KB, estimated 3938 objects
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Target number of buckets: 78
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Using 8192 Store buckets
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Max Swap size: 51200 KB
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Rebuilding storage in /webproxy/cache (CLEAN)
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Set Current Directory to /webproxy/cache
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Loaded Icons.
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8080, FD 8.
2000/02/18 13:44:08| WCCP Disabled.
2000/02/18 13:44:08| Ready to serve requests.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| Done reading /webproxy/cache swaplog (1083 entries)
2000/02/18 13:44:10| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 1083 Entries scanned
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 0 Invalid entries.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 0 With invalid flags.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 1083 Objects loaded.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 0 Objects expired.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 0 Objects cancelled.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 0 Duplicate URLs purged.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided.
2000/02/18 13:44:10| Took 2.1 seconds ( 523.8 objects/sec).
2000/02/18 13:44:10| Beginning Validation Procedure
2000/02/18 13:44:10| Completed Validation Procedure
2000/02/18 13:44:10| Validated 1083 Entries
2000/02/18 13:44:10| store_swap_size = 5343k
2000/02/18 13:44:11| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects

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$ps aux|grep squid
root 14060 0.0 0.0 204 252 pts/1 A 13:56:59 0:00 grep squid
root 8098 0.0 1.0 892 964 - A 13:44:08 0:00 ./squid
root 8804 0.0 21.0 27652 27508 - A 13:44:08 0:00 (squid)

$ps aux|grep nobody
root 16506 0.0 0.0 204 252 pts/1 A 13:57:05 0:00 grep nobody
nobody 7752 0.0 0.0 56 96 - A 13:44:08 0:00 (unlinkd)

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Jim Chivas, Computing/Network Services
Langara College
Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 15:19:28 MST