Im a second yr student at a career tech center and am currently assigned to set up a Linux proxy server(via squid) for a roomfull of Windows 98/XP pc's. I have little experience with Linux (basic networking, SAMBA, and DHCP stuff) I'm using the basic configuration for Squid and every time i try to start it it gives me

Squid failed. The error was: init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid.../etc/init.d/squid:line162; 4591 Aborted $SQUID-z-D-D 2>/dev/null
Starting Squid: /etc/init.d/squid:line 162: 4592
Aborted $SQUIID$SQUID_OPTS 2>/dev/null
[FAILED]

I'm pretty sure it has to do with the cache_dir line but i cant figure it out.
Also i'm running Red Hat Linux 9

help please

check the disk size first. make sure enough space in your disk for squid cache.
then check dir permisions. make sure squid is owner of that directory including subdirs
read the squid.conf to learn about "cache_dir"

good luck.

it gets past the cache error, now it just fails without any known cause. It just plain wont load

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