[squid-users] Building squid | Best Practices?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 8/09/2015 10:10 a.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> Hey Howard,
> 
> I forgot to mention that squid uses the directory "/var/run/squid" as
> the IPC directory which should be owned by the proxy or squid
> user(depends on the OS).
> From what you have mentioned squid tries to access some directory and is
> getting denied by permissions.
> Please Don't run squid with a "-n" option if possible, it will limit
> your options to using only one worker(which is the default and is OK in
> most basic cases).

No. The -N (upper case) means that. On Ubuntu the -N was needed for
Upstart integration (now defunct in the custom build).

Not to be confused with -n (lower case) which means a multi-tenant /
multi-instance named service is being used.

Amos