Squid wont start after update?

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Wed Dec 19 20:28:29 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:39 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>>   
>>>       
>> This is what I see:
>>
>>     ls -al /var/spool/squid
>>     total 12
>>     drwxr-x---  2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 .
>>     drwxr-xr-x 14 root  root  4096 2007-11-17 08:36
>>
>> Is that ok?
>>     
> ----
> not likely...
>
> had you done...
>
> ls -ld /var/spool/squid
>
> we would know but judging from the . you gave us...
>
> chmod 755 -R /var/spool/squid
> would fix things
> chown -R squid:squid /var/spool/squid
> in addition would make certain that you fixed things
>
> Craig
>
>
>   
ls -ld /var/spool/squid
drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 /var/spool/squid


chmod 755 -R /var/spool/squid

ls -ld /var/spool/squid
drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 /var/spool/squid

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

That corrected the permissions but squid still refuses to start.

Bob Goodwin




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