Time for action – fixing cache directory permissions

We can fix this issue by creating the cache directory and then transferring the ownership to the Squid user manually.

mkdir /opt/squid/var/cache
chown nobody:nobody /opt/squid/var/cache

The previous commands will create the cache directory and will transfer the ownership to the Squid user.

If we try to create the swap directories now, the command will succeed and will output something like this:

[root@saini etc]# /opt/squid/sbin/squid -z
2010/11/10 00:44:16| Creating Swap Directories
2010/11/10 00:44:16| /opt/squid/var/cache exists
2010/11/10 00:44:16| Making directories in /opt/squid/var/cache/00
2010/11/10 00:44:16| Making directories in /opt/squid/var/cache/01
...

What just happened?

We learned how to create the cache directory with proper ownership, so that Squid can create the swap directories without any problems.

Failed verification of swap directories

In most cases, we'll be using Squid as a caching proxy server and we'll have disk caching...