How to load squid was Re:localhost

[Karl Larsen]

jim barnes wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 13:51:45 Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> jim barnes wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 10 February 2008 09:44:07 Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>     I am using /etc/squid.conf to control squid. This is how it should
>>>> be. You do not need a thing to control it but an editor.
>>>>         
>>> Not true, you need some common sense also!
>>> Read squid.conf, edit TAG: visible_hostname, and get on with it.
>>>       
>>     I have done many things to that tag. Is it asking too much for you
>> to give a hint as to what I should do besides un-commenting it?
>>
>>     Bet you can't :-)
>>
>>     
>
> It would help if you posted what you tried, and the resulting error messages.
>
> Barring that, I would suggest:
>
> visible_hostname karl-desktop.mydomain
>
> Just as I typed it.
>
> Note you dont need to uncomment it, as there is no default...
> Matters not to the parser where in squid.conf it is located, but for humans, 
> it's convenient  to have it under TAG: visible_hostname or at the end of the 
> file.
>   
    Not really. It was the .mydomain that made the difference and I put 
it last in /ext/squid/squid.conf  and now squid is loaded in the kernel 
and should work fine.

    Thanks a million Jim. I knew it had to be the karl-desktop it didn't 
like. But could not see what.


Karl


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