[KLUG Members] squid proxy log rotate error

[bill]

Hello,

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 23:55, Mike Williams wrote:
> The most obvious answer is that your "nobody" account doesn't exist.

It's in /etc/passwd

> It's also possible that "nobody" exists, but doesn't have access to
> something that the script needs.  Maybe the log files, 

The log files are owned by "nobody"

> or maybe squid is
> not running as user nobody, so user nobody can't killall the squid
> processes.

the killall process is rwxr-xr-x

One thought: being as the squid.logrotate script calls bash, does
"nobody" need a shell?  It's set up as /sbin/nologin so I'm not sure it
can invoke a shell.

kind regards,

bill

> 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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