Failed to run Squid on CentOS 5

Question

I've install Squid by

yum install squid

and followed the instructions through this tips.

by the time I started Squid and it shows the error that

 init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/init.d/squid: line 62: 15908 Aborted                 $SQUID -z -F -D 
 /var/log/squid/squid.out 2>&1

some of the logs are here...

2012/02/09 15:57:37| unrecognised basic auth scheme parameter 'childred'

FATAL: auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth: (2) No such file or directory

Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE21): Terminated abnormally.

CPU Usage: 0.004 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.004 sys

Maximum Resident Size: 9824 KB

Page faults with physical i/o: 0

EDITED I've searched and the output is

dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

Can anybody advise me some solutions ?

Answer 1

2 Problems I think.

1.

The file /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth does not exist according to the error. You can check this by running the following command:

file  /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth

If you wan't to get Squid running without authentication, have a look at your squid-config and comment lines that have to do with authentication.

Your file wil probably contain the following lines:

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwd
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Bla bla what you show your users
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
auth_param basic case sensitive off

If you want to locate ncsa_auth on your system, use the following command:

rpm -qa | grep ncsa_auth

or, alternatively:

updatedb && locate ncsa_auth

You can then change the location in your config file. Make sure the squid-user had appropriate rights to the binary.

2.

You made a typo in your configuration.

childred should be children. See the config-exerpt above.