here is the error message when I try to initialize the cache FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'SQUID' <tl> userid in all caps is wrong Squid Cache (Version 2.3.STABLE2): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.020 seconds = 0.010 user + 0.010 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 266 also was running as group root which I had never seen before. and then permisions on /var/log/squid were wrong. and it could not make it's log files there. I changed squid.conf with cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid and then I changed /var/log/squid to match.
