Re: [squid-users] squid won't start on boot

On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Sébastien WENSKE wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Iget some troubles with squid3-stable8 when I try ti enable it on boot
>
> Starting squid: WARNING: Cannot write log file: /var/logs/cache.log
> /var/logs/cache.log: Permission denied
> [...]
> squid: ERROR: Could not read pid file
> /var/logs/squid.pid: (13) Permission denied
>
> It work fine when I start it manualy.
>
> You can find below what i did :
>
> ./configure --localstatedir=/var --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
> --sysconfdir=/etc/squid/ --enable-icmp --enable-arp-acl
> --with-default-user=squid
> make
> make install
> adduser squid
> mkdir /var/logs
> mkdir /var/cache
> chown -R squid.squid /var/logs
> chown -R squid.squid /var/cache
> /usr/sbin/squid -z
>
> OS is RedHat EL 5.1
>
> What's wrong ?

Quick guess? When you test squid as root squid created the cache.log as owner
root! Now that you are starting squid from an rc script it runs as user squid
so needless to say cannot write a file created by root!
Try linux101!!
chown squid.squid /var/logs/cache.log
chown -R squid.squid /var/cache
Check the perms and ownerships on the rest of your files in /var/logs!

Cheers
Ang

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