Hi all, I am a newbie squidish and Linux is also new to me. I am going to setup a squid transparent proxy for my small LAN. but, still I have many things to understand. I followed the installation guide of squid. but when I first launch squid it gives this error. and below is my squid.conf file that came with default. please, some one help me to go ahead. the error : [root@proxy ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'squid' Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE10): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.006 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.003 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 6 Aborted [root@proxy ~]# my squid.conf file: http_port 3128 icp_port 3130 udp_incoming_address 0.0.0.0 udp_outgoing_address 255.255.255.255 icp_query_timeout 0 maximum_icp_query_timeout 2000 mcast_icp_query_timeout 3000 dead_peer_timeout 10 seconds hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY cache_mem 16 MB cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 95 maximum_object_size 4096 KB minimum_object_size 0 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 16 KB ipcache_size 1024 ipcache_low 90 ipcache_high 95 fqdncache_size 1024 cache_replacement_policy lru memory_replacement_policy lru cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 100 16 256 cache_access_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log cache_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log cache_store_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/store.log emulate_httpd_log off log_ip_on_direct on mime_table /usr/local/squid/etc/mime.conf log_mime_hdrs off pid_filename /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid debug_options ALL,1 log_fqdn off client_netmask 255.255.255.255 ftp_list_width 32 ftp_passive on ftp_sanitycheck on ftp_telnet_protocol on dns_retransmit_interval 5 seconds dns_timeout 2 minutes #defnames off hosts_file /etc/hosts diskd_program /usr/local/squid/libexec/diskd unlinkd_program /usr/local/squid/libexec/unlinkd redirect_children 5 redirect_rewrites_host_header on authenticate_cache_garbage_interval 1 hour authenticate_ttl 1 hour authenticate_ip_ttl 200 seconds request_header_max_size 20 KB request_body_max_size 0 KB refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 quick_abort_min 16 KB quick_abort_max 16 KB quick_abort_pct 95 negative_ttl 5 minutes positive_dns_ttl 6 hours negative_dns_ttl 1 minute range_offset_limit 0 KB forward_timeout 4 minutes connect_timeout 1 minute peer_connect_timeout 30 seconds read_timeout 15 minutes request_timeout 5 minutes persistent_request_timeout 1 minute client_lifetime 1 day half_closed_clients off pconn_timeout 120 seconds ident_timeout 10 seconds shutdown_lifetime 30 seconds # ACCESS CONTROLS # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- #Recommended minimum configuration: acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access deny all http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24 http_access allow our_networks http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all miss_access allow all ident_lookup_access deny all reply_header_max_size 20 KB reply_body_max_size 0 allow all # ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS cache_mgr mohan-jayaweera@xxxxxxxxxxx cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid visible_hostname proxy tcp_recv_bufsize 0 bytes memory_pools_limit 5 MB forwarded_for on log_icp_queries on icp_hit_stale off minimum_direct_hops 4 minimum_direct_rtt 400 store_avg_object_size 13 KB store_objects_per_bucket 20 client_db on netdb_low 900 netdb_high 1000 netdb_ping_period 5 minutes query_icmp off test_reachability off buffered_logs off reload_into_ims off short_icon_urls off error_directory /usr/local/squid/share/errors/English maximum_single_addr_tries 1 retry_on_error off as_whois_server whois.ra.net as_whois_server whois.ra.net wccp_router 0.0.0.0 wccp_version 4 wccp_incoming_address 0.0.0.0 wccp_outgoing_address 255.255.255.255 prefer_direct off strip_query_terms on coredump_dir none coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/var/cache redirector_bypass off ignore_unknown_nameservers on client_persistent_connections on server_persistent_connections on detect_broken_pconn off balance_on_multiple_ip on pipeline_prefetch off request_entities off high_response_time_warning 0 high_page_fault_warning 0 high_memory_warning 0 store_dir_select_algorithm least-load ie_refresh off vary_ignore_expire off sleep_after_fork 0 relaxed_header_parser on
