[squid-users] [External Sender] Re: Squid service not restarting properly

[Amos Jeffries]

To answer your question specifically..

On 27/09/24 23:50, Vivek Saurabh (CONT) wrote:
> Hi NgTech,
> 
> I can restart the service wuth user and group being root. However, while 
> I try to start using user as apdpr01 and group as root, it is 
> getting timed out and not giving any errors. Can you please advise on this?

Squid low-level processes MUST NOT be given root access.

Your old user/group were valid and should still be working same as with 
any older Squid version.


> 
> Also, what the ./configure structure should be to compile the binary?
> 


   ./configure --with-default-user=apdpr01   [1]

With the above build you can remove any "cache_effective_user apdpr01" 
lines from squid.conf.

group does not matter (much), so long as that user (apdpr01) is a member 
of the group according to the OS.

The OS will auto-assign the default group of user (apdpr01) to Squid 
processes, **unless** your squid.conf indicates a specific one such as:
   cache_effective_group apache


What you should expect to see is a single "squid" process running as 
root (this is the master one controlled by "service squid ...").
Its child processes should all have your custom user/group.


Things to check:

  * Any important looking messages from:
       squid -k parse


  * Does running squid manually work properly?
      sudo squid

   - If not, what does cache.log say about why it halted?


  * Do you have a "squid.service" installed properly with systemd ?

   - does it match the one we publish for Squid v6?
  
<https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/blob/v6/tools/systemd/squid.service>

   - are the file paths listed there correct for where your Squid got 
installed to?



[1] other options may be needed, I do not know of specifically right now.

HTH
Amos