Bug 3850 – Squid fails to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jeff 2002-06-18 12:04:36 UTC]

I build squid on my gentoo machine and try starting it and it gives me a signal 
6 error.  I checked the log files and found it was because cache directories 
werent created...supposed to be done under /var/cache/squid, I created the 
directories based on my mandrake install in the /var/cache/squid directory and 
then started the proxy server successfully.  It is a trivial issue but I think 
it should be done in the install script.  If it is not done that way for a 
specific reason please let me know.

[Comment 1 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-06-18 19:06:44 UTC]

I found the following code in the ebuild... shouldn't this work?

pkg_postinst() {
    # This helps if you had it installed, but never _ran_ it.
    install -m0755 -o squid -g squid -d ${ROOT}/var/cache/squid
    install -m0755 -o squid -g squid -d ${ROOT}/var/log/squid
}

[Comment 2 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-06-21 16:57:33 UTC]

I just emerged squid-2.4.6-r1.ebuild and it worked fine... It created all the
directories it needed.