Squid cannot open HTTP Port

From: Marc August (stereokind_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/14/05 

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:27:23 +0200

Hi NG,

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Server 4 and squid.
I configured squid.conf for squid to act as a reverse proxy.
For this goal, squid has to listen on port 80 and 443.

e.g.
http_port is set to 80

when i execute squid, errors occure like:

(squid): Cannot open HTTP Port

Ok, 80 is a priviledged port (<1024) and the user as which squid runs as
(squid), needs to have root rights.

For this case there is a directive called:
cache_effective_user

This directive set to "root" brings up following error:

(squid): Don't run Squid as root, set 'cache_effective_user'!

any suggestions?

marc

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