Re: [squid-users] Struggling to start squid for the first time

2005-07-24 Thread Christoph Haas
sigh... Please always respond to the list. You replied to my personal email address. On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 02:10:37AM +0300, Kumara Jayaweera wrote: error 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z 2005/07/23 09:52:56| Creating Swap Directories FATAL: Failed to make swap

[squid-users] Struggling to start squid for the first time

2005-07-23 Thread Kumara Jayaweera
Hi all, I am a newbie squidish and Linux is also new to me. I am going to setup a squid transparent proxy for my small LAN. but, still I have many things to understand. I followed the installation guide of squid. but when I first launch squid it gives this error. and below is my squid.conf file

[squid-users] Struggling to start squid for the first time

2005-07-23 Thread Kumara Jayaweera
Hi all, I am a newbie squidish and Linux is also new to me. I am going to setup a squid transparent proxy for my small LAN. but, still I have many things to understand. I followed the installation guide of squid. but when I first launch squid it gives this error. and below is my squid.conf

Re: [squid-users] Struggling to start squid for the first time

2005-07-23 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Kumara... On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:49:25PM +0300, Kumara Jayaweera wrote: FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'squid' [...] cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid You want to run your proxy server as user squid and group squid. But the user does