[KLUG Members] squid proxy log rotate error

[Mike Williams]

The most obvious answer is that your "nobody" account doesn't exist. 
It's also possible that "nobody" exists, but doesn't have access to
something that the script needs.  Maybe the log files, or maybe squid is
not running as user nobody, so user nobody can't killall the squid
processes.

bill wrote:
> I recently installed squid proxy and it is working.
>
> Overnight it was supposed to rotate the logs.
>
> I found this error message though:
>
> -----------------------------------------
> /etc/cron.daily/squid.logrotate:
>  
> This account is currently not available.
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> The contents of that file are:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> su - nobody -c "/usr/bin/killall -USR1 squid >/dev/null 2>&1"
>
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
> kind regards,
>
> bill
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