On 10 February 2012 01:28, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> squid.conf is owned by >> "root" user and group, r/w for user only; the swap log (which I assume >> is swap.state) is owned by "proxy" user and group. > > > Then ensure that the root user is the account you are starting Squid from. > Not your normal login. > The whole path affects the file permissions, so also check that read access > is allowed in /etc and /etc/squid directories. Likewise for the cache > directory paths. > > Squid runs as the user account which started it. That account requires > access to all the resources Squid uses, and ability to su itself down to the > low-privileged effective user account the worker daemons run in. > > Amos The inability to open the conf file on boot has resolved itself (or I quoted an error resulting from some manual attempt to run squid) - but the "squid[1551]: storeDirOpenTmpSwapLog: Failed to open swap log" error still exists, and is fatal. This is the unprivileged user spawned by the root process that is run at boot. The low-privileged effective user is the default, "proxy". Here's an accurate representation of my cache/logs file stucture: /media/sdcard root:root 777 ../squid proxy:proxy 770 ../../00 through 0F proxy:proxy 750 ../../swap.state proxy:proxy 640 ../../logs proxy:proxy 775 ../../../*.log proxy:proxy 640 Interestingly, swap.state is back even though I deleted it during troubleshooting, so Squid can clearly r/w here just fine. For completeness, my cache_dir is set as follows: cache_dir ufs /media/sdcard/squid 800 16 256 Logs: access_log none cache_log /media/sdcard/squid/logs/cache.log cache_store_log /media/sdcard/squid/logs/store.log I really can't see anything wrong with my permissions. What am I missing? Thanks.
