put some hints about starting as squid:squid directly with systemd

diff --git a/squid.service b/squid.service
index bcf76c09f03c1343977322d58c745698a312a1f6..75a871b77083da1fdf4b6f8086942691abcb1011 100644 (file)
--- a/squid.service
+++ b/squid.service
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ After=syslog.target network.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=forking
+PIDFile=/var/run/squid/squid.pid
+# Note: when starting directly as squid user the /var/run directory is not writable, put:
+# pid_filename /var/run/squid/squid.pid
+# into /etc/squid/squid.conf; and make sure you did systemctl daemon-reexec after useradd
 User=squid
 Group=squid
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/squid