On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Adam Binks wrote: > Hi, > > I hope somebody can help :) > > CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18-194.el5) > Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 > SquidGuard: 1.4 Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29 > > I have installed squid & squidGuard (as above) and I am having the followin= > g problem. > > When I start squid with "service squid start" I get the following errors in= > /var/log/squid/cache.log: > > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] (squidGuard): can't write to logfile /usr/local= > /squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] New setting: dbhome: /usr/local/squidGuard/db > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] New setting: logdir: /usr/local/squidGuard/log > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] init domainlist /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowa= > ll.destdomainlist > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] loading dbfile /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowal= > l.destdomainlist.db > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] (squidGuard): can't write to logfile /usr/local= > /squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] New setting: dbhome: /usr/local/squidGuard/db > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] New setting: logdir: /usr/local/squidGuard/log > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] init domainlist /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowa= > ll.destdomainlist > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] loading dbfile /usr/local/squidGuard/db/allowal= > l.destdomainlist.db > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] Error db_open: Permission denied > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] Error db_open: Permission denied > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32053] Going into emergency mode > 2011-10-21 11:27:32 [32052] Going into emergency mode > > However, if I start squid manually with "squid -f /etc/squid/squid.conf" th= > ere is no issue and both squid & squidGuard start without issue. > > I have checked the permissions on all DB files & log files and they are fin= > e: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 squid root 11K Oct 21 11:04 squidGuard.log -rwxr-xr-x 1 squid > squid 8.0K Oct 21 11:01 allowall.destdomainlist.db > > I have rebuilt all of the DB files with squidGuard -C all still not noavail= > . I have installed this solution many times before and never hit this probl= > em so I am confused as to what I am forgetting. > > Look forward to your replies. > > Thanks > Adam >
Greetings Adam, Change the permissions in your /usr/local/squid folder. the files should be owned by squid. cd /usr/local/squid chmod -Rf squid:wheel * -j
