Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:36:34 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script Message-ID: <20050706173054.P21919@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <1120630154.57575.97.camel@au.dyndns.ws> References: <1120584597.57575.51.camel@au.dyndns.ws> <20050706033032.E21919@www.pukruppa.net> <1120630154.57575.97.camel@au.dyndns.ws>
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 03:33 +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: >> >>> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 >>> >>> If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: >>> >>> /var/log/squid_cache.log: >>> >>> commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to *:80: (13) Permission denied >>> FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port >>> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE9): Terminated abnormally. >> Did you set >> squid_enable="YES" > > Yes. > >> squid_user="root" > > No, it didn't occur to me. I was assuming that the script would set it > to the required user and I didn't see any documentation about it. > However I can now see that it should probably be self-evident for even a > semi-competent user. :) I have no idea. Being a semi-competent user myself - I worked this out by trial and error because I had to set up a transparent proxy these days. Regards, Uli. >> squid_flags="-D" > > No. It's the default in the script. > >> in /etc/rc.conf ? >> >> Regards, >> >> Uli. > > Just so I can learn a bit more from this - has this script been designed > like this because it is specifically safer to launch the squid > executable as user 'squid'? Or is it just because it's the 'norm' to > avoid running programs (from launch scripts) as root whenever possible? > > > Thanks for your help, > > Wayne > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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