This did it :-)

Using the following command provided by Gavin:
$ sudo chown proxy.proxy /var/spool/squid/ (but changing 'proxy.proxy' to
'squid.squid')
changed the ownership, then using the command provided by Christopher:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/squid start
simply worked.  Thanks Gents!

David

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Christopher Chan <
[email protected]> wrote:

> David Groos wrote:
>
>> Thanks Christopher and Gavin
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Christopher Chan <
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello David,
>>
>>    What is the setting of
>>
>>    cache_effective_user
>>
>>  cache_effective_user squid
>> cache_effective_group squid
>>
> That is your problem right there.
>
>
> Default user and group is proxy and Kubuntu is setup for that which is why
> you find /var/spool/squid owned by proxy.
>
>
> You can either comment out this setting or change the ownership of
> /var/spool/squid.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Christopher
>
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