> Thompson, Scott (WA) wrote: >> Sorry in my previous post I assumed I was running 2.6 Stable 6 and I >> wanted to u/g to Stable 19 but it appears I am running 2.5 Stable6 and I >> want to u/g to Squid 2.6 Stable 19 >> > > Some configuration changes might be needed to migrate from 2.5 to 2.6. > See > http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/squid-2.6.STABLE1-RELEASENOTES.html#s1 > for details. > >> I have found that when I run squid -v I get the following output >> >> Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE6 >> configure options: --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu >> --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu >> --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin >> --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share >> --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec >> --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man >> --infodir=/usr/share/info --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/sbin >> --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/squid >> --enable-poll --enable-snmp --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru >> --enable-storeio=aufs,coss,diskd,null,ufs --enable-ssl >> --with-openssl=/usr/kerberos --enable-delay-pools >> --enable-linux-netfilter --with-pthreads >> --enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB,winbind >> --enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group,unix_group,wbinfo_group >> ,winbind_group --enable-auth=basic,ntlm --with-winbind-auth-challenge >> --enable-useragent-log --enable-referer-log >> --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost >> --disable-ident-lookups --enable-truncate --enable-underscores >> --datadir=/usr/share >> --enable-basic-auth-helpers=LDAP,MSNT,NCSA,PAM,SMB,YP,getpwnam,multi-dom >> ain-NTLM,SASL,winbind >> >> Does that mean I can just run ./configure from the folder in which I >> extracted the Squid 2.6 Stable19 files with the above command line >> switches and I will have Stable 19 installed? I assume I would have to >> restart the squid service! >> > > You can, but you might want to pare down the list a little. I start > with "configure --prefix=/usr --includedir=/usr/include > --datadir=/usr/share --bindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid > --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/squid" to use the RedHat > directories and add options from there. Thank you. There is a wiki page I'm trying to make useful: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CompilingSquid Are there any other must-knows for RedHat? > >> Any info would be greatly appreciated >> > > Be aware that the RHEL 5 Squid package > (squid-2.6.STABLE6-5.el5_1.3.i386.rpm) adds a configuration directive > (max_filedesc) which is not present in the non-RedHat-customized version. > The most recent releases of Squid have configure options --with-maxfd=N (2.x) or --with-filedescriptors=N (3.x) which replace that old RH squid.conf directive. >> Scott >> > > Chris > >
