How to load squid was Re:localhost

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
    But then I decided to re-boot and when it came back up no X Windows! 
So Ctrl-Alt-F1 and I went to /usr/sbin/ and mv squid /root and now it 
doesn't work. And now I am back on X Windows and squid is NOT going to 
work on Ubuntu PERIOD.

Karl


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