Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:33:36 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SQUID under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000103133336.A6781@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200001031415_MC2-932E-3E4C@compuserve.com>; from "Nils Holland" on Mon Jan 3 14:15:37 GMT 2000 References: <200001031415_MC2-932E-3E4C@compuserve.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 03), Nils Holland said: > Hi folks, > today I wanted to install the SQUID HTTP-Proxy on my FreeBSD machine. So I > used the PORTS-system in order to get SQUID22-STABLE. It installed > correctly and does now start at system-boot. > > The problem is that it gives me an error message that it cannot > access its logfile access.log unter /usr/local/squid/logs. I had a > look at that directory and it's empty. As far as I know SQUID will > create the access.log file as well as some other logfiles there when > it's started for the first time. Since it failed to do so, I think > the permissions for that directory must be set wrong. After having a > look at that I saw the following permissions for /usr/local/squid: > > OWNER: root > GROUP: Wheel > READ ACCESS: everybody > WRITE ACCESS: owner > EXEC. ACCESS: everybody Squid runs as user 'nobody', so it can't create the logfiles. Just do a "chown -R nobody /usr/local/squid" and you should be all set. Sort of odd that the port didn't do this. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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