Squid wont start after update?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:28 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 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.
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try giving squid group write permissions...

chmod -R g+w /var/spool/squid

Craig