Re: [squid-users] Logdir changes ownership

Dave,

        I selected to have it run as nobody when I installed it.

        Also doing chown is what I've had to put in the startup script I now
use to start squid.

        Have you any other suggestions?

Jim
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 12:02, Dave Raven wrote:
> I suspect you have set squid to run as user nobody.nobody and it checks
> the rights on the log dir's before dropping privilages.
>
> try chown -R -v nobody.nobody /logdirectory
>
> Dave Raven.
> OpteqSec.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: "Squid Proxy" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 2:04 PM
> Subject: [squid-users] Logdir changes ownership
>
>
> > I'm sure this will prove to be really stoopid but.....When I start squid
> > on boot up, obviously it starts under user root, however it then exits
> > because it wants the loggind directories to be owned by nobody.nogroup.
> >
> > What do I need to do to retain ownership as nobody.nogroup 'cause there
> > is obviously something screwy going on?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
>
Received on Sat Feb 16 2002 - 06:18:06 MST