Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, marlowe wrote:
I set the write bit for other in the /dev/ directory. The permissions
on /dev read
You should not do this. Very risky thing to do.
I also set the write bit for other for /dev/stdout. On CentOS 4.1,
/dev/stdout is a symlink for /proc/self/fd/1 which is in turn a
symlink for /dev/pts/0. The permissions on /dev/pts/0 are as follows
crw--w-w- 1 marlowe tty 136, 0 Sep 20 16:51 /dev/pts/0
It is my understand that with these other write permissions in place,
the user squid should be able to write to /dev/stdout. However when I
attempt to start squid, I still receive the same error message. I
tried to run my start script from the CLI and received the same error
messages. What else should I be looking at?
Are you starting Squid as yourself, or as root? I only tried as myself.
Additionally it may be worth upgrading. I have only tried this with
2.5.STABLE11. Running a somewhat recent version is recommended anyway..
REgards
Henrik
Henrik,
My first attempt was starting it as root. I tried running it as myself
and was successful. However I would prefer to run it as root, shed
privliges and run as a user without a shell.
I am not sure I understand why the squid user is unable to write to
STDOUT. I don't believe it can be the permissions on STDOUT since an
addition of write permissions for other did not allow it. I would
appreciate some ideas on why squid isn't able to write to STDOUT.
I am running the CentOS 4.1 squid-2.5.STABLE3.6E.14 RPM released on 15
Sep 05, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-766.html.
Thank you for all your help, you have provided me with a couple of ideas
to explore.
Patrick
