Re: [squid-users] Squid cannot start because it "can't open 'on' for writing..."

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006, Marcello Romani wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a strange problem with squid.
> When I stop and restart the program, it fails to start; cache.log says
> it can't open "on" for writing, and suggests to check that the parent
> directory be writable by the user "squid".

It sounds like you've set a configuration option incorrectly.

Could you please provide your squid.conf file, preferably without any
of the comments?

Adrian

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