Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.1.4 log rotate by squid user not permitted

David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed Squid 3.1.4 on my CentOS 5.4 machine. I started
> squid using root and have the following 2 lines in squid.conf.
>
> cache_effective_user squid
> cache_effective_group squid
>
> When I switch user from root to squid and issue a squid -k rotate,
> the following error occurred.
>
> squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 10 to process 5997: (1)
> Operation not permitted
>
> Log rotation using squid user works in Squid 3.0 and 2.7. Does anyone
> know the solution for Squid 3.1?

Yes, don't run the -k operations as a non-privileged user. Run it as the
same user as the master squid instance (root in this case).

Amos

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