uid gid of squid user must match across the two systems. use id sqid on
both to find out the actual values...
Cheerio
Robin
Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
>
> Hi Shanker,
>
> I have got a working squid on my SuSE 6.3 partition. The cache_dir is
>/var/squid/cache.
> UID/GID are squid.
>
> Now in Red Hat 6.2 partition also I have installed squid and to share the above
>cache,
> I have changed cache_dir in /etc/squid/squid.conf to
>
> cache_dir /mnt/SuSE/var/squid/cache 100 16 256
>
> where /mnt/SuSE is the SuSE 6.3 mount point.
>
> Now the problem is after mounting SuSE partition the UID/GID of squid directory
>changes to
> some number such as 12.150 instead of squid.squid as was there when I boot in SuSE.
>
> Secondly when I try to start squid I get the following error :
>
> <SNIP>
>
> [root@rajesh] /etc/squid# /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid start
> Starting squid: squid
> FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type '/mnt/SuSE/var/squid/cache'
>
> Squid Cache (Version 2.3.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.020 seconds = 0.010 user + 0.010 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 176
> [root@rajesh] /etc/squid#
>
> <SNIP>
>
> What am I doing wrong here ? Anybody there ? Please raise your hand.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Rajesh
>
> Shanker Balan saw fit to inform LI that:
> >You should be able to. Squid runs as user "proxy" and group "proxy", u
> >might need to make sure that the UID/GID for both RHL and SuSE is the same.
> >
> >--Shanu
> >
> >Rajesh Fowkar saw fit to inform LIH that:
> >>Can I share my SuSE 6.3 Squid cache with the Red Hat 6.2 squid cache ? How this
>can be done.
> >>I tried creating the following link on my Red Hat 6.2 :
> >>
> >>it gives me error saying that cache_dir type not know or something like that.
> >
>
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