[wplug] squid

[Shawn]

Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

>On Tuesday 15 July 2003 18:18, Shawn wrote:
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>>Robert E. Coutch wrote:
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>>>You didn't accidentally change root's UID?
>>>Are you trying to write to a read-only partition?
>>>
>>>It's strange that root couldn't write to the file.
>>>
>>>-Bob
>>>
>>>Shawn wrote:
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>>>>I have installed squid on a freebsd box. I am haveing trouble with
>>>>the uid's and gid's I have created a user called squid in sysinstall
>>>>and a squidadm group. I have added to users to the squidadm. When I
>>>>try to write the squid.conf file it tells me I do not have permision.
>>>>I have also tried it in root and it denies me.. HELP!
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>>>>
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>I highly doubt it, but check for the existence of extra attributes (like those 
>reported by lsattr in ex[2|3]fs.
>
>Could the file be in use, and therefore locked? Make sure to stop squid and 
>then edit squid.conf. That wouldn't be a problem on Linux, but FreeBSD might 
>be more anal about locking...
>
>-A
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I am at my wits end with this I installed from ports and have heard it 
is easy to install. It was easy to install but I am trying to install 
squirm and I guess the user permissions are wrong but I am doing 
everthing in the install instructions and cannot figure this out...argh!!!!