Squid wont start after update?

[Bob Goodwin]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 18Dec2007 20:37, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>   
>> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>     
>>> On 18Dec2007 16:25, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>    I just ran todays F7 updates and squid immediately quit running and
>>>>    wont start.
>>>>         

>>> Look at /var/log/squid/cache.log.
>>>   
>>>       
>> The first line after the PUP update:
>>
>> 2007/12/18 15:14:20| storeDirClean: /var/spool/squid/0D/31: (13) Permission 
>> denied
>>
>> Whatever that file is that it wants is not there?
>>     
>
> The whole /var/spool/squid tree needs to be owned by "squid".
> But it probably is (better check).
>
>   
>> It had been working normally until this time.
>>     
>
> Yeah.
>
> Have you got SELinux enabled? It is possible that the rules let squid
> run from boot, but not from a root command line. I've certainly tripped
> over this "feature" myself.
>
> There's some rationale for this somewhere on the web, but personally I just
> turn SELinux off. Why? Because it screws with the straightforward UNIX
> security model, such that you can't do deeply desirable stuff like
> looking at a file permission and knowing what you're allowed to do with
> it.
>
> You can run SELinux in "permissive" mode, too, where it reports SELinux
> violations but permits the action; your system will run fine but crap
> will stream constantly across the console...
>   
I disabled SElinux, even rebooted, but squid still refuses to start.

Also, since rebooting this morning, it is not writing to the log 
/var/log/squid/cache.log?

That hasn't been updated since yesterday ...  Stopping the firewall has 
no effect either.

I can do without squid for  a while I guess.

Thanks for the help.

Bob Goodwin