On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:46:59 Amos Jeffries wrote: > stephane lepain wrote: > > On Friday 09 November 2007 15:20:04 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > >> Hi Stephane, > >> > >> stephane lepain wrote: > >>> Hi Guys, > >>> > >>> Squid did not respond when I restarted my PC. I don't have any error > >>> message in /etc/squid/squid.out. It seems that squid is not even > >>> registering. Since I don't have an error message, I can't sort this > >>> out. I also tried a restart, stop and start but nothing would do. > >>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and then ./squid restart. > >>> Anyone has any thought on this? > >> > >> Which OS and Squid version are you running? What do you have for the > >> following directive in your squid.conf: > >> > >> cache_log > >> > >> If you had tried to restart Squid from /etc/rc.d/init.d and if Squid > >> failed to load, then Squid will report errors in cache.log unless you > >> have configured Squid not to generate a cache.log file! > >> > >> > >> By the way, just in case, check your hard drive disk space usage. > >> > >> If nothing helps, check where the Squid binary is located from your > >> startup script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid. > >> > >> Go to the directory where the Squid binary is residing and run: > >> > >> ./squid -NCd1 > >> > >> > >> You will see the errors why your Squid is not starting or not responding > >> in the 1st place. > >> > >> Thanking you ... > >> > >>> Cheers to all of you > > > > Hi all, > > > > I now have got an error message saying "could not determine fully > > qualified host name. set visible host name" . I cant seem to get around > > this. I would appreciate a hand. > > > > Cheers to all > > Publicly visible host needs a FQDN assigned and rDNS configured. All the > networking software on your host will be having problems with this. > > Assuming you are on a unice; > /etc/hostname should contains a FQDN > > OR in the rare event that you CANT do that; > > it must contain a valid host name (ie 'proxy') and /etc/resolv.conf > must contain a domain entry that combines to form a FQDN <host>.<domain> > with rDNS that resolves to an IP asigned to that machine. > > > As a hack-around just for squid there is the visible_hostname directive, > although this will go nowhere to fixing the DNS/rDNS problems at the > cause of the message. > > Amos Though that is kind of weird because I didn't have that problem before. I have switched all my server from Mandriva to Ubuntu Server version. I think that could be the problem!! I am now using SQUID 2.6 stable 14 as well. Should I run the latest version? -- Cordialement, Best Regards stephane lepain
