Maybe try a 'su - squid -c <location of squid executable>' in
whichever file that starts squid (usually in /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid).
IN your config, the squid user actually has to *initiate* squid,
not root.
Chris
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Thomas Gaume wrote:
> I installed the rpm for 2.0-4 found at contrib.redhat.com to upgrade
> squid from the distribution that came with my redhat 5.2 disk. I edited
>
> /etc/squid/squid.conf and inserted the proper values.
>
> The problem I am having is that squid will not start at boot up, it says
>
> do not run as root. I have .conf file set to run squid as user:squid
> group:squid, and also have tried user:nobody group:nogroup (the way I
> had version 1 running). I looked in the user listing and the rpm did
> create a user named squid with a group of squid, but squid still refuses
>
> to run during the boot up process complaining about being ran as root.
>
> If I log in as myself and then run "squid &" everything works great.
>
>
> Here is where I have set the values in my squid.conf file to make squid
> run as a user other than root.
>
> cache_effective_user squid
> cache_effective_group squid
>
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