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Date:      Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:38:59 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script
Message-ID:  <42CAC5B3.6070400@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <1120584597.57575.51.camel@au.dyndns.ws>
References:  <1120584597.57575.51.camel@au.dyndns.ws>

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Wayne Sierke wrote:
> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3
> 
> If I start squid via the script (as root), I get:
> 
> /var/log/squid_cache.log:
> 
> commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to *:80: (13) Permission denied
> FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port
> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE9): Terminated abnormally.

The squid startup script probably changes to a non-root user before running the 
squid binary, which means that squid cannot bind to a port below 1024. 
Normally, people run squid on port 3128, although 8080 is also relatively common.

-- 
-Chuck




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