Re: [squid-users] Listening on port 80

Interesting. Squidman lets you edit squid.conf separate from the GUI to your
heart's content, so that's no problem. Is cache_effective_user a 2.6 only
option or will that work with the 2.5 implementation?

Steve

Amos Jeffries-2 wrote:
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>> I tried that, but Squid fails to start. I am using Squidman on Mac OS X
>> that
>> uses squid 2.5. When I'm not logged in as root, I can't use port 80, and
>> when I am logged in as root, I can't use squid!
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> Ah, I highly recommend squid 2.6.
> Contact the squidman developer about getting it upgraded.
> http://homepage.mac.com/adg/SquidMan/index.html
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> A cache_effective_user setting may get around the root problems, but it
> will depend on how squidman alters the squid.conf whether any help we can
> give gets preserved or wiped on the next GUI-made update.
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> Amos
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>> Amos Jeffries-2 wrote:
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>>>> I'm sure somebody has asked this before, but I can't find anything.
>>>>
>>>> I'm desperately trying to figure out how I can listen on port 80 with
>>>> Squid
>>>> (if it is even possible). My proxy at work only allows traffic on port
>>>> 80,
>>>> so I am trying to set up a tunnel at home for applications that use
>>>> other
>>>> ports. Squid doesn't let you run as root, yet you have to be root to
>>>> access
>>>> ports less than 1024! Is there any way to do this with squid? If not,
>>>> what
>>>> program could I use?
>>>
>>> Change http_port to 80 in the squid.conf. Simple as that.
>>> BTW, what version of squid are you trying to use?
>>>
>>> Amos
>>>
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>>>
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