Re: [squid-users] Logdir changes ownership

Can you not email us the actuall error you get,
aswell as how you start squid at bootup; and how you normally
would?

thanks,
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 3:21 PM
Subject: 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 - 09:14:57 MST