squid becoming root

Hello,
    I have noticed that some files in the swap directory is owned by root.
Squid can't access these files and the cache.log is full of access denied. I
turned the debug mode on, and I found that sometimes squid tries to switch
user to root, but it says it fails and give up. This happens while I am
looking. But I find those root owned files in the end.
    Why does squid needs to switch to root?? And how does he create files in
the swap directory owned by root???
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Hossam El-Ashkar
h_elashkar@ieee.org
Received on Mon Jun 28 1999 - 10:28:07 MDT