tor 2010-03-11 klockan 05:32 +0000 skrev GIGO .: > > This is the portion which i am confused about as there are many texts > available on the net which suggest that is should be chrooted(which > honeslty look complex to me as well) while others explaining that > giving directory permissions is good enough. I want to know the best > and safe practice no matters even if it requires a little more hassle. chrooting Squid is pretty simple. See the chroot directive in squid.conf. But may take a bit of effort to get helpers running properly depending on which helpers you are using. > Secondly the default packaged software Version 3.0.STABLE1 that comes > with Ubuntu is good enough and there is no reason to moe to stable24 > unless you have a specific need. However upgrading the software will > preserve the configuration settings of version 3.0 stable1 and will be > installed in the same path. 3.0.STABLE1 has several known security issues plus countless general stability issues... I would not be confident running 3.0.STABLE1 in production use today. See http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/ for the major issues on why you may want to upgrade... Regards Henrik
