On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:48:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm just outta my depth here. I have to say that config
>> file would take me years of effort just to read through.
>
> It only takes a second to run a text search on squid.conf, you don't
> have to read the whole thing.
A text search on what? Hostname? I'll try to remember that trick
next time.
> # TAG: visible_hostname
> # If you want to present a special hostname in error messages,
> etc, # define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
> # will be used.
With that parenthesis, that looks like a command; so I tried it :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gethostname
bash: gethostname: command not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
(Same result as root, btw)
> If you have multiple caches in a cluster and #
> get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual #
> names with this setting.
Caches? Cluster?? Geek to me...
> #
> #Default:
> # none
>
> I don't have any special setting for that in the squid.conf file on my
> F8 and Centos 5 computers. I vaguely remember having to set that option
> previously; I think it was when I was using a single-word name for my
> computer. After I started using a "fully qualified" name, I no longer
> had to set it. (This computer is named mutt.melvilletheatre.net -- if I
> had named it mutt then I would have to put a fully qualified name in the
> squid.conf file.)
Hmmm .... I left "localdomain" on all mine, for fear of getting
in trouble if I changed it. Maybe I should?
> What do you get when you type
>
> hostname
>
> at a bash prompt?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname
Hbsk2.localdomain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
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