Re: How to set up Squid Cache?

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 03:46:30 -0400 (EDT) Statux <statux bigfoot com>
imparted to us:

I never delved deeply. I presumed 'squid -z' worked just fine. Every
time I failed to run it, squid refused  work. Every time I did run it,
squid chugged along for a little while (seconds) then stopped. I start
squid and it worked.

I never set up the access levels part, so I can't say how that
works/doesn't work.

> I'm in the middle of getting Squid set up, too. Funny thing I found
> is,
> squid (when run as root) is supposed to do its root stuff and then
> drop
> access levels for security (as per the docs). What I found was (and I
> was
> reading the setup docs) 'squid -z' fails to set up the cache since it
> drops
> access immediately. What I had to do was create a squid account (not a
> shell acct tho) and move everything over to /home/squid.. change
> permissions, etc. This allowed squid to run ok. It's funny.
> 
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, ABrady wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 00:34:34 -0400 John Aldrich
> <john chattanooga net>
> > imparted to us:
> >
> > > Can someone point me to a pretty basic "how-to" on setting up a
> Squid
> > > Cache?
> > > I have been offered a job and one of the things my new boss wants
> my
> > > help
> > > doing is setting up a Squid Cache. I'm not a complete newby to
> system
> > > admin,
> > > but I've never done anything like this before... not from scratch,
> > > anyhow. :-)
> > >
> > > Remember... I need a "Squid Cache for Dummies" how-to manual. :-)
> >
> > I don't have a 'for dummies ' vsersion available. But, I've had to
> set
> > one up several times and just followed the directions on the squid
> > pages. If simple caching is what you need, you simply install it,
> run
> > 'squid -z' and then start it up. If you need more than that, I'm
> more of
> > a dummy than you are, nyah, nyah.
> >
> > I seem to remember there being a mailing list available, too.
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> -Statux
> 
> 
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