squid on 8.04

**emada** · June 24th, 2008

I cant get squid to work on ubuntu 8.04. i got squid via apt-get and when i tryed to start it i got a fail message telling me to set "visible_hostname" so i did. and that made the init.d script work fine but i cant find the pid file in /var/run and it never opens the ports for squid

entering squid in the cl gave me an error saying it couldnt read from the squid.conf file due to permission issue so i chmod 777 /etc/squid/squid.conf and still no joy, any ideas?

**windependence** · June 24th, 2008

Originally Posted by emada

I cant get squid to work on ubuntu 8.04. i got squid via apt-get and when i tryed to start it i got a fail message telling me to set "visible_hostname" so i did. and that made the init.d script work fine but i cant find the pid file in /var/run and it never opens the ports for squid

entering squid in the cl gave me an error saying it couldnt read from the squid.conf file due to permission issue so i chmod 777 /etc/squid/squid.conf and still no joy, any ideas?

After you start squid, do this:

Code:

ps aux | grep squid

You should see two lines, one is you searching for the squid process and the other is the actual process itself. The process ID should be in that output. If you don't see it, it isn't starting.

On reading the squid.conf file did you try a:

Code:

cat /etc/squid/squid.conf

If you want to edit the file do this:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/squid/squid.conf

After making changes do a ctl+o (that's the letter o) and hit enter to save the file. It's a good idea to make a copy before you start editing. Good luck!

Oh, and it would be a good idea to change the permissions on the squid.conf file back to what they were after you finish editing. Leaving them world writable is not a good idea.

-Tim