I thought I had it, I found something in Chp5 of the Squid Definitive book talking about initializing cache directories. I ran the squid -z command and got back the following details after is took: aclParseAccessLine: squid.conf line 846: http_access permit all aclParseAccessLine: expecting 'allow' or 'deny', got 'permit'. Create Swap Directories On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM, berry guru <berryguru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I installed Webmin to configure Squid3 and was wondering how do I go > about initializing the squid cache directory. > > Under the Squid Proxy Server it states "Your Squid cache directory > /var/spool/squid3 has not been initialized. This must be done before > Squid can be run." I entered both a username I typically use and > root, but they both return the error "Cannot write to directory > /etc/squid3" > > I'm thinking this is an issue with permissions to that directory. I'm > not exactly sure on how to edit those permissions. Am I correct in > that assumption?