Re: [squid-users] Squid currently not working.

Are you running it as root?

adrian

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Steve Billig wrote:
> I just don't see why it would not be working if I have had no problems
> before a while back, except for it actually running. Before I had it
> so that it would work, and actually work on port 81. For some reason
> it doesn't want to work now. I would try to use another port but only
> standard ports that are not blocked by my school work, like port 81
> and 3389. This is why I chose port 81
>
> If I am reading the information right from that command, nothing else
> is running on port 81. Although it came up with quite a few things and
> it could also be that they are running on it.
>
> As I said above, I just don't see why it wouldn't like the port now...
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@optus.com.au> wrote:
> > > FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port
> > > Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally.
> > >
> >
> > > Supposedly by what this says, the port can't be opened. I made sure
> > > that the firewall had it opened and that my router was forwarding it.
> >
> > Its not a firewall thing, its the operating system not allowing squid to
> > open that port. Either the port is already in use, or squid doesn't have
> > the correct privilages to open the port. Typically you need to be root
> > open a port <1024.
> >
> > As root, use 'netstat -anp | grep 81' to check if its in use and what is
> > using it. I use port 8080 for squid;
> > rix adam # netstat -anp | grep 8080
> > tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:8080 0.0.0.0:*
> > LISTEN 11852/(squid)
> > rix adam #
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -Steve

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