Squid wont start after update?

[Bob Goodwin]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:37 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>     
>>> On 18Dec2007 16:25, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>    I just ran todays F7 updates and squid immediately quit running and
>>>>    wont start.
>>>>
>>>>            service squid restart
>>>>            Stopping squid:                                                  
>>>>     [FAILED]
>>>>            Starting squid: ....................                             
>>>>     [FAILED]
>>>>
>>>>    What do I need to look for?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Look at /var/log/squid/cache.log.
>>>   
>>>       
>> The first line after the PUP update:
>>
>> 2007/12/18 15:14:20| storeDirClean: /var/spool/squid/0D/31: (13) 
>> Permission denied
>>
>> Whatever that file is that it wants is not there?
>>
>> It had been working normally until this time.
>>
>>  ll /var/spool/squid/0D/31
>> total 0
>>     
>
> Well, hmmm.  Squid needs to own the entire cache tree, so you should, as
> root:
>
> 	chown -R squid:squid /var/spool/squid
>
> to make sure of that.  If that still doesn't work, you could delete the
> entire cache and recreate it via:
>
> 	rm -rf /var/spool/squid/*   (delete the cache)
> 	squid -z                    (recreate the directories)
>   


I tried all three commands suggested above:

    squid -z

    2007/12/19 14:01:19| Creating Swap Directories
    FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /var/spool/squid/00: (13)
    Permission denied   "where?"
    Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally.
    CPU Usage: 0.001 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.001 sys
    Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
    Page faults with physical i/o: 0



    ll /var/spool/squid/00

    ls: cannot access /var/spool/squid/00: No such file or directory  



    service squid start

    init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... Starting squid: ........[FAILED]....