Re: [squid-users] Logdir changes ownership

yes.
chown -R -v nobody.nobody /var/squid/logs
chmod -R -v 660 /var/squid/logs

That should fix your problem.

Dave Raven.
OpteqSec.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Dave Raven" <dave@reason.za.org>
Cc: "Squid Proxy" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Logdir changes ownership

> Dave,
>
> this is how I start squid at startup.
>
> /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -s
>
> This is the error output in /var/log/messages
> Feb 9 08:15:19 linux squid[2320]: Cannot open
'/var/squid/logs/access.log' for writing. ^IThe parent directory must be
writeable by the ^Iuser 'nobody', which is the cache_effective_user ^Iset in
squid.conf.
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Jim
>
> On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 16:09, Dave Raven wrote:
> > 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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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Received on Sun Feb 17 2002 - 02:30:08 MST