I am feeling extremely bad to have posted without any details of how it all happened and to have wasted every reader's time. Here are all the details : Operating System: Slackware 10.2 Machine: PIII, 667 MHz Compile options: CFLAGS="-O2" ./configure --enable-delay-pools --enable-removal-policies="lru" --enable-useragent-log --disable-wccp --disable-wccpv2 --enable-ssl --enable-storeio=diskd,ufs --enable-snmp --disable-ident-lookups --enable-http-violations --enable-http-violations i686-slackware-linux make all It compiled without errors #make install With this command squid was installed without any error. In the squid.conf file, I changed the following: http_port 8080 visible_hostname cathy.alfa.net To check the sanity of my configuration of squid.conf, #/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k parse I got no Error. Now I gave the follwing command to start squid : #/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid It gave me error that 'cache' directory does not exist: So I created the 'cache' directory /usr/local/squid/var/cache I set the permissions on directory 'cache' as follows: chown root:root cache ( while I was at Directory "/usr/local/squid/var") I have set the ownership on 'cache' directory' for root since other folder i.e. in the 'var' directory was also owned by root with the permission 733 After this I gave the following command to create 'cache' #/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z The cache directories are created without any error. Now I retry to start Squid: #/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid This time I got no error meaning that Squid should have started. Now when I want to access Internet through this Machine on which Squid has been installed. I do not get anything, not even any warning like "Access Denied" since I have not configured Squid to allow access to any machine. What I have Tried? I tried the following command: #/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k restart Error: No running copy, I have checked that there is no startup script in /etc/rc.d More than this I After this I have googling since then to find a solution and when I did not any in a foolish manner I posted the message to squid users. I have earlier successfully run Squid on FreeBSD. Fedora Core. But I have never got such problem. Please help. On 04/10/06, Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Santosh Rani wrote: > I have installed Slackware on one of my P-III machines to serve 12 > machines. > I am not able to start it. > How to start ir? Pointers please. > > Regards http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/using-mailing-list.html#asking-questions Specifically: * What, exactly, fails? * What steps did you attempt to resolve it? * What do your log files show? * Post details of what went wrong. * What error(s) did you get? * What steps are you taking to test? * Show us exactly what happened. * If applicable, what does the software's debugging show? * Don't say "it didn't work". Show how it didn't work. * Don't make the readers guess. Chris
