Re: [squid-users] Starting on boot squid-2.5.STABLE2 with winbind fails

Joao Coutinho wrote:
>
> I did what you told me to do. And this is the error message when squid is
> starting:
>
> FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'squid'
> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE2): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.064 seconds = 0.057 user + 0.008 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 245
>
> This message occurs when I try to start squid without starting winbindd. I
> made this test. I killed winbindd and ran squid and the same massage came
> up.
> If I start winbindd and then start squid, no error occurs. Squid works fine.
> So my problem must be Winbind startup delay causes wb_ntlmauth helper to
> fail.
 
 Most probably, try to find out how much the needed delay is,and put
 for instance a sleep in your startup script between the windbind
 startup and the squid startup.

 Otherwise perhaps , squid could be configured to run
 under a 'local' account if this is possible
 when winbind is being used.

 M.
Received on Thu Apr 10 2003 - 11:21:22 MDT