Thanks Gavin. I just checked ownership of /var/spool/squid/ and found that it was proxy. proxy. I then checked and while there is a user named 'squid' there is none called 'proxy'. Likewise there was only a group called, 'squid', none named, 'proxy'. Does that matter? Here are the precise permissions for the folder /var/spool/:<br>
<br>root@gcos1:/var/spool# ls -l<br>total 28<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-22 16:49 anacron<br>drwxr-xr-x 5 daemon daemon 4096 2008-09-22 16:12 cron<br>drwx--x--- 3 root lp 4096 2009-03-07 22:11 cups<br>
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-10-20 13:10 cups-pdf<br>drwxr-x--- 5 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 2008-12-28 19:34 exim4<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2008-09-22 15:55 mail -> ../mail<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-09-22 16:11 openoffice<br>
drwxr-x--- 2 proxy proxy 4096 2009-03-08 16:26 squid<br>root@gcos1:/var/spool# <br><br>Any thoughts?<br><br>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Gavin McCullagh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmccullagh@gmail.com">gmccullagh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, David Groos wrote:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> Initializing the Squid cache with the command squid -f<br>
> /etc/squid/squid.conf -z ..<br>
><br>
> 2009/03/08 16:26:38| parseConfigFile: line 113 unrecognized: 'max_filedesc 0'<br>
> 2009/03/08 16:26:38| Creating Swap Directories<br>
> FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /var/spool/squid/00: (13) Permission denied<br>
> Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE18): Terminated abnormally.<br>
> CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys<br>
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB<br>
> Page faults with physical i/o: 0<br>
<br>
</div>It looks like the ownership of the directory /var/spool/squid is wrong. On<br>
debian/ubuntu squid usually runs as the user "proxy". The directory must<br>
therefore be owned by that user.<br>
<br>
sudo chown proxy.proxy /var/spool/squid/<br>
<br>
should do that, though if you installed the packaged version that should be<br>
looked after automatically.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Gavin<br>
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