Re: Squid running as root

You need to define cache_effective_user <username> <group> to make Squid
run as the user/group you want. Squid will run as whatever you tell it,
just make sure Squid has the access it needs to the cache and logs, and
etc (or wherever you have your squid.conf) directories. You might also
want to try upgrading to Squid 1.1.19 which *might* help your xcalloc
problems, otherwise try the usual GNU libmalloc and such.

        -Bill

On Fri, 26 Dec 1997, Roch Pageau wrote:

> I have added this line in my rc.local to run the squid proxy server,
> but am not sure how to get it to run as someone other than root.
>
> if [ -f /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf ] ; then
> echo -n ' squid'; /usr/local/squid/bin/RunCache &
> fi
>
> I would like to run it as www if possible.
>
> I keep getting the following errors while running squid and think it has
> something to do with squid putting a squid.core file in my / directory
> because I am running as root.
>
> FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to allocate 4096 blocks of 1 bytes!
>
> Squid Cache (Version 1.1.3): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: user 16 sys 12
> Memory Usage: rss 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> 97/12/26 16:42:22| storeWriteCleanLog: Starting...
>
> Thanks
>
> Roch
>
Received on Fri Dec 26 1997 - 22:46:28 MST