help

my system doesnt seem to like the cache_effective_user feature? can
anyone help please?

my system is redhat 5.2

with the following rpm's installed so that i can use squid 2.2
(downloaded from rh ftp site /redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/RedHat/RPMS)
glibc-2.1.2-11.i386.rpm
squid-2.2.STABLE4-8.i386.rpm

Thanks,
Dave

NB the full debug info is in the attached file (i didn't want to just
past it all in the email cause it's quite long)

2000/01/05 18:17:58| Processing: 'cache_effective_user squid'

2000/01/05 18:17:58| parse_line: cache_effective_user squid

2000/01/05 18:17:58| Processing: 'cache_effective_group squid'

2000/01/05 18:17:58| parse_line: cache_effective_group squid
....

2000/01/05 18:17:58| file_map_create: creating space for 15753 files

2000/01/05 18:17:58| --> 492 words of 4 bytes each

2000/01/05 18:17:58| cachemgrRegister: registered config

2000/01/05 18:17:58| cachemgrRegister: registered comm_incoming

2000/01/05 18:17:58| fd_open FD 0 stdin

2000/01/05 18:17:58| fd_open FD 1 stdout

2000/01/05 18:17:58| fd_open FD 2 stderr

2000/01/05 18:17:58| leave_suid: PID 22299 called

2000/01/05 18:17:58| leave_suid: PID 22299 giving up root, becoming
'squid'

2000/01/05 18:17:58| leave_suid: setresuid: (38) Function not implemented

2000/01/05 18:17:58| Squid is not safe to run as root! If you must

2000/01/05 18:17:58| start Squid as root, then you must configure

2000/01/05 18:17:58| it to run as a non-priveledged user with the

2000/01/05 18:17:58| 'cache_effective_user' option in the config file.

FATAL: Don't run Squid as root, set 'cache_effective_user'!

Squid Cache (Version 2.2.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.

CPU Usage: 0.190 seconds

Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB

Page faults with physical i/o: 206

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