[KLUG Members] squid proxy log rotate error

[bill]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:24, Mike Williams wrote:
> bill wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >   
> I think that's it.  "su -" tries to create an environment (path, shell,
> etc) that the user would have if they logged in.  User nobody can't log
> in, so that could be the problem.  See if it works taking out the first
> dash.  

I think you mean edit the squid.logrotate script so the line reads: 

su nobody -c "/usr/bin/killall -USR1 squid >/dev/null 2>&1"

I tried that and ran it as root (instead of waiting for the cron job)
and it still reported back: 

This account is currently not available.


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