On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:48:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> > 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 : [btth@Hbsk2 ~]$ gethostname bash: gethostname: command not found [btth@Hbsk2 ~]$ (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? [btth@Hbsk2 ~]$ hostname Hbsk2.localdomain [btth@Hbsk2 ~]$ -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
