Re: [squid-users] Squid & SquidGuard

On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Adam Binks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope somebody can help :)
>
> CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18-194.el5)
> Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21
> SquidGuard: 1.4 Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29
>
> I have installed squid & squidGuard (as above) and I am having the followin= g problem.
>
> When I start squid with "service squid start" I get the following errors in=
> /var/log/squid/cache.log:
>
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] (squidGuard): can't write to logfile /usr/local= /squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] New setting: dbhome: /usr/local/squidGuard/db
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] New setting: logdir: /usr/local/squidGuard/log
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] init domainlist /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowa= ll.destdomainlist
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] loading dbfile /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowal= l.destdomainlist.db
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] (squidGuard): can't write to logfile /usr/local= /squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] New setting: dbhome: /usr/local/squidGuard/db
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] New setting: logdir: /usr/local/squidGuard/log
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] init domainlist /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowa= ll.destdomainlist
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] loading dbfile /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowal= l.destdomainlist.db
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] Error db_open: Permission denied
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] Error db_open: Permission denied
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] Going into emergency mode
> 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] Going into emergency mode
>
> However, if I start squid manually with "squid -f /etc/squid/squid.conf" th= ere is no issue and both squid & squidGuard start without issue.
>
> I have checked the permissions on all DB files & log files and they are fin=
> e:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 squid root 11K Oct 21 11:04 squidGuard.log -rwxr-xr-x 1 squid squid 8.0K Oct 21 11:01 allowall.destdomainlist.db
>
> I have rebuilt all of the DB files with squidGuard -C all still not noavail= . I have installed this solution many times before and never hit this probl= em so I am confused as to what I am forgetting.
>
> Look forward to your replies.
>
> Thanks
> Adam
>

Greetings Adam,

Change the permissions in your /usr/local/squid folder. the files should be owned by squid.

cd /usr/local/squid
chmod -Rf squid:wheel *

-j
Received on Fri Oct 21 2011 - 11:45:38 MDT