Re: [squid-users] Re: Plz help... redirector problem

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:59:26 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Deepa D wrote:

> We have a firewall running but there is no policy
> that has been added for the loopback interface.

Make sure that there is no implicit rule which block traffic on the
loopback interface on your server. Communication must be allowed on the
loopback interface for Squid to work properly.

> Squid is being started as root and the the
> cache_effective_user is the default user 'nobody'.

Ok,

> Changing it to 'root' threw a fatal error.

For good reasons.

> Kindly elaborate on what the problem could be.

Try manually starting the helper as your cache_effective_user. "man su" if
you do not know how.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu May 13 2004 - 08:59:30 MDT

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