/var/spool/squid: (13) Permission denied

[0wned]

Hi Friends,

I had some troubles configuring squid proxy.

I'm running FC6 and tried to install squid-2.6.STABLE4-1.fc6.i386.rpm

After the installation. I run the service to start it. The error appeared however as follows:

/var/log/squid/cache.log

2007/01/09 16:18:52| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2007/01/09 16:18:52| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec
2007/01/09 16:18:52| /var/spool/squid: (13) Permission denied
FATAL: Failed to verify one of the swap directories, Check cache.log
for details. Run 'squid -z' to create swap directories
if needed, or if running Squid for the first time.
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.056 seconds = 0.048 user + 0.008 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0

/var/log/messages

Jan 9 16:17:32 rigel squid: Failed to make swap directory /var/spool/squid: (13) Permission denied
Jan 9 16:18:38 rigel last message repeated 2 times
Jan 9 16:18:38 rigel squid[5721]: Squid Parent: child process 5723 started
Jan 9 16:18:39 rigel (squid): Failed to verify one of the swap directories, Check cache.log for details. Run 'squid -z' to create swap directories if needed, or if running Squid for the first time.
Jan 9 16:18:39 rigel squid[5721]: Squid Parent: child process 5723 exited due to signal 6
Jan 9 16:18:42 rigel squid[5721]: Squid Parent: child process 5730 started

Looking at the permission:

/var/spool/squid --> 0755 permission

squid -z
--provides the same errors.

/etc/squid/squid.conf
cache mem 128
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 2000 16 256


I had 1GB of memory. Also, I even changed ufs to diskd but no improvements.

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.

SELinux is disabled also.

Thanks.

[kurre]

Hi.

As I can see, squid is running as user "rigel"

Run 'squid -z' as root to create swap directories
chown rigel /var/spool/squid as user root

/Kurre

[0wned]

Hi.

As I can see, squid is running as user "rigel"

Run 'squid -z' as root to create swap directories
chown rigel /var/spool/squid as user root

/Kurre

No, rigel was the name of the computer and squid is running as squid user.

[kurre]

Hi.

I think /var/spool is owned by root.
Did you run 'squid -z' as root to create the swap?

And if so, did you changed /var/spool/squid to be owned by squid?

/Kurre

[0wned]

Hi.

I think /var/spool is owned by root.
Did you run 'squid -z' as root to create the swap?

And if so, did you changed /var/spool/squid to be owned by squid?

/Kurre

Hello kurre,

Thanks for your post.

/var/spool was indeed owned by root. However, /var/spool/squid is owned by squid user.

To make user I did the following:

remove all the directories.then,

#mkdir -p /var/spool/squid
#mkdir -p /var/log/squid
#chown -R squid.squid /var/spool/squid
#chown -R squid.squid /var/log/squid
#chmod 0750 /var/spool/squid
#chmod 0750 /var/log/squid

#squid -z
2007/01/12 12:18:52| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directories /var/spool/squid: , (13) Permission denied for details.
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.056 seconds = 0.048 user + 0.008 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0


Nothing seem to be progressing. What can u suggest?

TIA

[kurre]

Hi.

Maybe squid -z runs as user squid.

Test this as user root:

rm -r /var/spool/squid
chmod 777 /var/spool

squid -z

chmod 755 /var/spool

/Kurre

[azlinux]

Create a user "squid" and give permission to the swap directories

then squid -z as user squid to create swap directiries