How to load squid was Re:localhost

[Karl Larsen]

NoOp wrote:
> On 02/10/2008 02:09 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>   
>> Paul wrote:
>>     
>>> On Feb 10, 2008 4:46 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>  And now I am back on X Windows and squid is NOT going to
>>>> work on Ubuntu PERIOD.
>>>>         
>>> Good, that's settled then.
>>>       
>> Kind of odd that the guy at
>>
>> http://tonyseno.blogspot.com/2008/01/configuring-squid-on-ubuntu.html
>>
>>     
> [snip]
>   
>> *shrug*
>>
>>     
>
> Now boys... :-)
> [listmom]
>
> Found out something interesting (besides the listmom issues) while
> perusing these multiple karl threads; when I read:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid/+bug/97505
> So I tried hostname -f on 4 of my systems:
>
> hostname -f
>
> on 3 of my systems it would return:
>
> hostname: Unknown host
>
> So I compared it to my laptop that has a fresh intall on it & also has a
> working 'hostname -f', and discovered that if I put the domain/workgroup
> name in the 127.0.1.1 line of /etc/hosts, hostname -f doesn't work. Example:
>
> /etc/hosts:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost <mysystemname>.mshome
> 127.0.1.1 <mysystemname>.mshome
>
> hostname -f = unknown host Note: mshome is the workgroup domain that I
> use for samba.
>
> but
>
> /etc/hosts:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost <mysystemname>.mshome
> 127.0.1.1 <mysystemname>
>
> hostname -f = <mysystemname>
>
> Not sure if any of that has any real bearing on squid or not, but I
> recall some threads in the past (Leonard enters stage left) where some
> programs were looking for, and not being cooperative when a "FQDN"
> wasn't found.
>
>
>   
    Relax. I learned how to get squid to work and it runs just fine with 
a simple one liner in /etc/squid/squid.conf and now it works fine. But a 
running squid kills my X Windows. So it can't be used here.

Karl


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