On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:28 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:39 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >> Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > > > > > >>> > >>> > >> This is what I see: > >> > >> ls -al /var/spool/squid > >> total 12 > >> drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 . > >> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2007-11-17 08:36 > >> > >> Is that ok? > >> > > ---- > > not likely... > > > > had you done... > > > > ls -ld /var/spool/squid > > > > we would know but judging from the . you gave us... > > > > chmod 755 -R /var/spool/squid > > would fix things > > chown -R squid:squid /var/spool/squid > > in addition would make certain that you fixed things > > > > Craig > > > > > > > ls -ld /var/spool/squid > drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 /var/spool/squid > > > chmod 755 -R /var/spool/squid > > ls -ld /var/spool/squid > drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 4096 2007-12-19 14:01 /var/spool/squid > > service squid start > init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... Starting squid: ........[FAILED].... > > That corrected the permissions but squid still refuses to start. ---- try giving squid group write permissions... chmod -R g+w /var/spool/squid Craig