Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:32:30 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> To: Matt Tucker <txborn@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Squid running as root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980110003108.13570A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <19980109153409.25573.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Matt Tucker wrote: > After installing the latest -RELEASE version of freeBSD, I am presented > at startup with a repeated message about not running "Squid" as root. I > have had absolutely NO experience with unix before and would like some > instructions as to how to solve this problem, and what the heck is > "Squid" anyway???? OK. In the file: /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf add the line: cache_effective_user nobody nogroup And reboot. This will cause squid to run as the user nobody. Make sure the user nobody has rwx privs to the cache directory. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | | Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+
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