Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-26 Thread Howard Waterfall
Hey guys back at it. I expect that Linux issues are really a much bigger problem for me than squid! I'm running into this problem now: /var/run/squid3.pid: (13) Permission denied I know it's a permission problem, but not sure the optimal way of fixing it. I created user 'proxy' and group

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-07 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 8/09/2015 6:32 a.m., Howard Waterfall wrote: > Rafael / Amos - > I got my system up and running yesterday. Thanks so much for the help. I > couldn't get some of the suggestions that Amos made to work, but they did > after running some of the commands on Rafael's wiki, so a real team effort! >

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-07 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 8/09/2015 9:57 a.m., Howard Waterfall wrote: > Thanks Eliezer. > > Looking at my notes, I'm pretty sure that: > > *apt-get build-dep squid* > > was a typo and I actually did > > *apt-get build-dep squid3* > > Is there something in the output I provided that confirms it's actually > squid

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-07 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Howard, I forgot to mention that squid uses the directory "/var/run/squid" as the IPC directory which should be owned by the proxy or squid user(depends on the OS). From what you have mentioned squid tries to access some directory and is getting denied by permissions. Please Don't run

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-07 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 8/09/2015 10:10 a.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey Howard, > > I forgot to mention that squid uses the directory "/var/run/squid" as > the IPC directory which should be owned by the proxy or squid > user(depends on the OS). > From what you have mentioned squid tries to access some directory

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-07 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Howard, On 07/09/2015 21:32, Howard Waterfall wrote: 1) Earlier in the thread, Amos suggested I run: apt-get build-dep squid You would need to use the "squid3" and not "squid" since this is the package ubuntu builds squid for. so the command should be: apt-get build-dep squid3 I have

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-09-07 Thread Howard Waterfall
Rafael / Amos - I got my system up and running yesterday. Thanks so much for the help. I couldn't get some of the suggestions that Amos made to work, but they did after running some of the commands on Rafael's wiki, so a real team effort! After getting it up and running, I found that mac address

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-08-30 Thread Howard Waterfall
+squid-users Thanks again, this is valuable information! As you may have guessed, I'm asking about the user that should do builds to ensure that the build outputs are created with the appropriate permissions - I get a little concerned about security. It sounds like you are suggesting that I

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-08-30 Thread Rafael Akchurin
regards, Rafael Akchurin Diladele B.V. From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org] On Behalf Of Howard Waterfall Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 7:42 PM To: Amos Jeffries squ...@treenet.co.nz Cc: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Building squid

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-08-29 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 29/08/2015 12:52 p.m., Howard Waterfall wrote: Ubuntu 14.04 Squid 3.5.5 Hi - I've successfully installed, configured and run squid 3.5.5 w/o a problem using: sudo apt-get install squid I want to filter by mac address though, so I purged that install and re-built squid with the

Re: [squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-08-29 Thread Howard Waterfall
Great stuff thanks a lot! Excellent timing too just getting ready to do the make. I'll follow your suggestions. A couple of follow ups: When doing the make (including ./configure), do I have to be running as root or some particular user? I set up a squid user and user group and also a squidadm

[squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

2015-08-28 Thread Howard Waterfall
Ubuntu 14.04 Squid 3.5.5 Hi - I've successfully installed, configured and run squid 3.5.5 w/o a problem using: sudo apt-get install squid I want to filter by mac address though, so I purged that install and re-built squid with the *--enable-arp-acl* flag. I installed using make install. This