squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

[Wayne Sierke]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 03:33 +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, 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.
> Did you set
> squid_enable="YES"

Yes.

> squid_user="root"

No, it didn't occur to me. I was assuming that the script would set it
to the required user and I didn't see any documentation about it.
However I can now see that it should probably be self-evident for even a
semi-competent user. :)

> squid_flags="-D"

No. It's the default in the script.

> in /etc/rc.conf ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Uli.

Just so I can learn a bit more from this - has this script been designed
like this because it is specifically safer to launch the squid
executable as user 'squid'? Or is it just because it's the 'norm' to
avoid running programs (from launch scripts) as root whenever possible?


Thanks for your help,

Wayne