Re: tlug: Squid config

[Subba Rao <subb3@example.com>]

On  0, Simon Cozens <simon@example.com> wrote:
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> 
> Subba Rao (lists.tlug):
> >The cache_peer values have the following settings.
> >
> >cache_peer myhost.mydomain.com     parent    3128  3130  [proxy-only]
> 
> This is probably not what you want. You're saying that *all* the hosts
> on your network are running caches that you should peer with. While that
> might be the case, it's unlikely. I have *no* cache peers.
> 

The only caching system is the linux system, the rest are hosts on the network.
Most are Windows and OS/2 boxes and will not be doing caching but will use
squid to access the Web.

> If you're thinking about the ways to give access to your hosts, what you 
> want is the http_access stuff lower down. You'll want something like
> this:
> 
> acl myself srcdomain mydomain.com
> http_access allow myself
> 

Will this still cache the web sites that are being accessed?

I removed the cache_peer settings from my squid.conf and now I am getting
this error, when I try to start squid.

(0)root@example.com:~ => /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -z
2000/02/15 08:56:25| Creating Swap Directories
FATAL: Failed to make swap directory /var/squid/cache/00: (13) Permission denied
Squid Cache (Version 2.3.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.000 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 7

I checked the permissions on the directory and they are at rwxr-xr-x and are
owned by root:root.

Subba Rao
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