RE: [squid-users] squid on moderate scales

2004-08-02 Thread Mohsin Khan
I agree with the power fo rpm, but still i think that compiling from the actual code gives you more options to control and configure. --- Elsen Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It should do fine, depending how to squid.conf is > > written. Butding! dong!, rpm is for as you > sa

RE: [squid-users] squid on moderate scales

2004-08-02 Thread Elsen Marc
> > It should do fine, depending how to squid.conf is > written. Butding! dong!, rpm is for as you said > newbies, one should always configure from src, to have > more flexiblity and better performance. Ding dong !,Boink ! Kadoeeiing... One of your bells just fell out of the it's tower. T

RE: [squid-users] Random dropping of requests

2004-08-02 Thread Mohsin Khan
I had this issue once, same behavior...amazing:) though i never troubleshoot it as I never get a chance, but well what I have researched is , it could be like any of the client browsers that is sending some bad request. Oh now i remeber applogiies, check the network for any virus, are you using any

Re: [squid-users] squid on moderate scales

2004-08-02 Thread Mohsin Khan
It should do fine, depending how to squid.conf is written. Butding! dong!, rpm is for as you said newbies, one should always configure from src, to have more flexiblity and better performance. --- Payal Rathod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > A friend of mine, a lab teacher, at a college is

Re: [squid-users] load balancing

2004-08-02 Thread Mohsin Khan
LVS can be placed on the same server, but it is good if you a new Linux Box for it, I am not sure but last time I used it, I need to recompile the kernel. Please do check with the latest Docs. And why can not you do the Roundrobin. It is always a good option. And yeah most convinient, you can use

RE: [squid-users] cascading squid -> non-squid proxy server.

2004-08-02 Thread Elsen Marc
> > Hi, > > I would like to cascade squid to another non-squid > proxy server. Can I do that? If so, How do I > configure? > > Browser -> Squid -> Non-squid Proxy server -> > Internet. > Check : cache_peer directive in squid.conf.detault and comments. Use option 'no-query' if

Re: [squid-users] cascading squid -> non-squid proxy server.

2004-08-02 Thread Kiran Maraju
hi jayakumar, U can acieve it by configuring squid.conf with the following : "cache_peer parent 0 no-query default proxy-only login=PASS " kiran --- Quoting Jayakumar Dwarakadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > >

RE: [squid-users] Authentication

2004-08-02 Thread Elsen Marc
> > Hello > > i works for a company which recently shifted to > linux+squid, but we are getting a problem in the squid > configuration- is there any way of authentication of > squid proxy users without entering the username and > password while accesing internet. >We have developed a clien

[squid-users] Authentication

2004-08-02 Thread vs 1984
Hello i works for a company which recently shifted to linux+squid, but we are getting a problem in the squid configuration- is there any way of authentication of squid proxy users without entering the username and password while accesing internet. We have developed a client module which can be

RE: [squid-users] Random dropping of requests

2004-08-02 Thread Scott Phalen

RE: [squid-users] porn filter

2004-08-02 Thread Scott Phalen
Any recommendation where to get free blacklists? Regards, Hendrik Voigtländer - http://urlblacklist.com Scott

[squid-users] Random dropping of requests

2004-08-02 Thread A. Sajjad Zaidi
Greetings, I have just taken charge of a squid machine that has been showing some strange behaviour for the last few weeks. For one thing, cpu usage on average is above 80% which seems abnormally high, even taking into account the high traffic (about 2000 hits per minute). Secondly, all traffic r

[squid-users] cascading squid -> non-squid proxy server.

2004-08-02 Thread Jayakumar Dwarakadas
Hi, I would like to cascade squid to another non-squid proxy server. Can I do that? If so, How do I configure? Browser -> Squid -> Non-squid Proxy server -> Internet. Thanks, Jayakumar. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send

Re: [squid-users] porn filter

2004-08-02 Thread Bosse Klykken
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:57:12PM +0200, Hendrik Voigtländer wrote: > Any recommendation where to get free blacklists? http://www.linugen.com/contentfilter/ http://www.squidguard.org/blacklist/ .../Bosse

Re: [squid-users] Need to replace squid with more appropriat diagnositc program

2004-08-02 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, josh wrote: > A while back I had problems with running squid on a Cobalt RaQ > XTR. Then I realized it had to do with how swap was triggered. Since > squid actually has a setting that tells squid how much ram to swallow > on startup it is a very good basic tester of available r

Re: [squid-users] Not using first listed cache-directory while multiple are configured

2004-08-02 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Dautzenberg, John wrote: > When I change the order of the caches in squid.conf then the first > listed in the conf-file will be 'ignored' to be used to save data to. > So, i.e. when cache2 is listed first, then cache2 don't get data written > to it. The filesystem-type in squid

Re: [squid-users] porn filter

2004-08-02 Thread Hendrik Voigtländer
fire-eyes wrote: Dans Guardian works quite well, I am aware of an ISP that uses it to filter all content for all of their users. In three years I've only ever heard two complaints about improperly blocked pages. Any recommendation where to get free blacklists? Regards, Hendrik Voigtländer

[squid-users] Need to replace squid with more appropriat diagnositc program

2004-08-02 Thread josh
A while back I had problems with running squid on a Cobalt RaQ XTR. Then I realized it had to do with how swap was triggered. Since squid actually has a setting that tells squid how much ram to swallow on startup it is a very good basic tester of available ram and swap funtion. I have been using s

Re: [squid-users] load balancing

2004-08-02 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jeff Donovan wrote: > would this be a placed on a linux server in front of the two cache's or > does it run on the same device as squid? Both possibilities existsm Regards Henrik

[squid-users] Re: most critical commands to monitor about squid Box

2004-08-02 Thread Adam Aube
unixware wrote: > i have question how can i login in cache manager on > command line using squidclient squidclient mgr: This will bring up a list of the pages of information available. To get the General Runtime Information page, use: squidclient mgr:info Adam

[squid-users] Not using first listed cache-directory while multiple are configured

2004-08-02 Thread Dautzenberg, John
Hi, I'm running Squid2.5 stable6 on Debian Linux 3.0r2 on a Dell2650 and using 3 cache-directories where each has it's own disk beneath. See this 'df' : proxy2:~# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 35518624269060 35249564 1% /

[squid-users] Not using first listed cache-directory while multiple are configured

2004-08-02 Thread Dautzenberg, John
Hi, I'm running Squid2.5 stable6 on Debian Linux 3.0r2 on a Dell2650 and using 3 cache-directories where each has it's own disk beneath. See this 'df' : proxy2:~# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 35518624269060 35249564 1% /

Re: [squid-users] porn filter

2004-08-02 Thread fire-eyes
Dans Guardian works quite well, I am aware of an ISP that uses it to filter all content for all of their users. In three years I've only ever heard two complaints about improperly blocked pages. On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi i wish to setup a porn filter of squid and i

Re: [squid-users] porn filter

2004-08-02 Thread Jeff Donovan
go to http://www.squidguard.org it's easy --j On Aug 2, 2004, at 2:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i wish to setup a porn filter of squid and i wish to know if anyone can help. Thanks a lot. --- jeff donovan basd network operations (610) 807 5571 x41 AIM xtdo

[squid-users] porn filter

2004-08-02 Thread listas
Hi i wish to setup a porn filter of squid and i wish to know if anyone can help. Thanks a lot.

Re: [squid-users] squid on moderate scales

2004-08-02 Thread Hendrik Voigtländer
Payal Rathod wrote: Hi, A friend of mine, a lab teacher, at a college is going to install squid on her college's Mandrake 10.0 official machine. She will use the default squid-2.5 Stable4 rpm cos' she is very new to unix. The problem is that there will be around 300 students using it as a proxy ser

Re: [squid-users] most critical commands to monitor about squid Box

2004-08-02 Thread Hendrik Voigtländer
unixware wrote: Dear all i want monitor squid box performance here is commands i guess most critical to watch . 1) top ( look at squid is not taking too much CPU ) 2) vmstat ( make sure machine is not swaping too much) or 2) free -m 3) iostat -x (look for await , svctime 4) uptime (load a

[squid-users] Weighted redundant proxy auto-config script.

2004-08-02 Thread Peter Smith
For those who are interested, I have crafted a dynamic "Auto-Configuration" script for use in Apache using Perl. Based on a random number, it will provide a user with a listing of proxies which may be weighted to determine their allocation. Please see http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-5.h

[squid-users] squid on moderate scales

2004-08-02 Thread Payal Rathod
Hi, A friend of mine, a lab teacher, at a college is going to install squid on her college's Mandrake 10.0 official machine. She will use the default squid-2.5 Stable4 rpm cos' she is very new to unix. The problem is that there will be around 300 students using it as a proxy server plus around 25 t

[squid-users] most critical commands to monitor about squid Box

2004-08-02 Thread unixware
Dear all i want monitor squid box performance here is commands i guess most critical to watch . 1) top ( look at squid is not taking too much CPU ) 2) vmstat ( make sure machine is not swaping too much) or 2) free -m 3) iostat -x (look for await , svctime 4) uptime (load average is not

Re: [squid-users] load balancing

2004-08-02 Thread Jeff Donovan
On Aug 2, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jeff Donovan wrote: I'm running a transparent cache with squid guard. My problem seems to be How do I split my traffic? This you do in your router in case of transparently intercepting proxies.. If you are not using a TCP inte

Re: [squid-users] load balancing

2004-08-02 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jeff Donovan wrote: > I'm running a transparent cache with squid guard. My problem seems to > be How do I split my traffic? This you do in your router in case of transparently intercepting proxies.. If you are not using a TCP interception device capable of tracking individu

[squid-users] load balancing

2004-08-02 Thread Jeff Donovan
greetings I have a new squid server i want to put in parallel with my existing system. i read most of the Docs and Faq's but still have not come up with a good understanding for my scenario. I'm running a transparent cache with squid guard. My problem seems to be How do I split my traffic ? or

Re: [squid-users] squid don't cache

2004-08-02 Thread nx13372
nx13372 wrote: Abdock wrote: try to use Squid2.5stable5 regards, 2004/07/30 08:54:41| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for I'm also posting in the debian users list. This could be a Debian specific problem!? ok. It's a package bug. Bjoern Schmidt already post this as a bug: #26

[squid-users] Squid reverse proxy limit

2004-08-02 Thread Kerscaven Marc
Hello, I'm using squid/2.5.STABLE5 for a reverse proxy with URL switching with squidGuard. This linux squid server will be front of 30 web servers, for the moment it use 15Mbps, CPU is 50% idle. I monitore the client tcp connect established with RRDtools : /bin/netstat -vatn | /bin/grep localip:

Re: [squid-users] squid don't cache

2004-08-02 Thread nx13372
Abdock wrote: try to use Squid2.5stable5 regards, 2004/07/30 08:54:41| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for I'm also posting in the debian users list. This could be a Debian specific problem!?

Re: [squid-users] squid don't cache

2004-08-02 Thread nx13372
Abdock wrote: what version of squid are u using ? Debian Sid package version 2.5.STABLE6

RE: [squid-users] Re: [squid-users] Fw: time´s quotas??????

2004-08-02 Thread Gert Brits
Hi There Please could I have the link as well, cause I am very interested in the program. Regards Gert Brits -Original Message- From: bimal pandit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 3:07 PM To: zilinex; squid user list Subject: Re: [squid-users] Re: [squid-users]

Re: [squid-users] Re: [squid-users] Fw: time´s quotas??????

2004-08-02 Thread bimal pandit
dear zilinex, i am also intrested in your project and would like to check/test/use it. could you send it for me with all the details like installation procedure etc.. regards, bimal On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 18:28, zilinex wrote: > I wrote an authentication program based on ncsa that calculates >

Re: [squid-users] squid don't cache

2004-08-02 Thread Abdock
try to use Squid2.5stable5 regards, > 2004/07/30 08:54:41| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for

Re: [squid-users] squid don't cache

2004-08-02 Thread Abdock
what version of squid are u using ? -Original message- From: nx13372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:52:19 +0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [squid-users] squid don't cache > Hi all, > All i do, was: > #/etc/init.d/squid stop > #rm -fr /var/spool/squid > #rm /var/log/squid

Re: [squid-users] Squid does not use cache dir(WAS: Squid problem regarding memory usages)

2004-08-02 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Diamond King wrote: > It successfully changed to use 5120 file descriptors. > Now, the question is squid did not use the assigned > 6GB cache dir. Im not saying Squid didnt cache > anything. Here's the excerpt of access.log file > entries :- Maybe this? http://www.squid-cach

RE: [squid-users] redirect to a proxy

2004-08-02 Thread Elsen Marc
> Hello, > > I've got 2 proxies SQUID 2.5, a principal and a secondary. > > All the traffics go to the principal, but i want to use the > secondary if the > principal has not connection to internet. > > For exemple : if the connection of the principal is down, a > script changes > the squid

RE: [squid-users] Blocking language/script

2004-08-02 Thread Elsen Marc
> > Is squid capable to block languages or scripts such as Java, > javascript, > etc... > > I have some users using Internet Explorer who suddenly can not use the > Yahoo Webmail... i.e... since Yahoo!mail upgrade mailbox for their > users, some of our users can not suddenly delete their mail