On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Michael Gatti wrote:
> Hello List Members
>
> I hope someone can help me out on this one. I have upgraded a squid
> instalation using squid-2_2_STABLE4-8_i386.rpm on a redhat 5.1 linux
> box. I have edited some lines of the squid.config file a tried to
> start squid with no success.
> The message registered in the log files is the following:
> - proxy squid[645]: Squid Parent: child process 651 started
> - proxy (squid):Don't run Squid as root, set 'cache_effective_user'!
> - proxy squid[645]: Squid Parent: child process 651 exited with
> status 1
>
> how do I edit the line cache_effective_user, should I put a nother
> user? now it's like this: cache_effective_user nobody nobody
>
> I'm sorry if this sounds stupid, it's that I don't have that much
> time experience with Linux.
>
> Thanx everyone ...
cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid
I added user squid, and run it under that. Just remember you can't use
ports < 1024.
Jeff
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