I uncommented that line and now I get Initializing the Squid cache with the command squid3 -f /etc/squid/squid.conf -z .. FATAL: Bungled /etc/squid/squid.conf line 3410: cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000 Squid Cache (Version 3.5.12): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.008 seconds = 0.004 user + 0.004 sys Maximum Resident Size: 114480 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 6 > On Oct 4, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 at 17:00:24, KR wrote: > >> Hello Anthony, Yuri, >> >> It seems every line is commented out in the config? > > Impossible - otherwise it couldn't generate the error message "FATAL: Bungled > /etc/squid/squid.conf line 3467: cache_dir rock /ssd3 ..." > > Thta is telling you that line 3467 of squid.conf starts with the directive > "cache_dir". > >> This is a fresh install. > > Standard Ubuntu? Which version? > >> ls -al /ssd3 outputs: >> >> total 8 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 18:20 . >> drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Oct 3 13:49 .. > > Hm, okay, so that really does exist on your machine, then... > >> Attached are two screenshots that are suspect. > > Er, what are those screenshots of? It's certainly not the output of Squid, or > its config file. > >> Do I need all of these cache folders on every partition? > > You can put your cache directories wherever you like. > >> Ubuntu is running inside of a vm, > > Er, so /ssd3 is not an actual SSD, then? What is it? > >> default installation method using the setup wizard. > > I'm suspicious that you may be used webmin, and we've had someone here on the > list recently who installed Squid on Ubuntu along with webmin, and we then > found out that the package maintainer had put the documentation file for > squid.conf in place of the actual squid.conf. > > It can still work (not everything is commented out) but it's *far* bigger than > it needs to be, and is somewhat confusing to work with. > > > Regards, > > > Antony. > > -- > It may not seem obvious, but (6 x 5 + 5) x 5 - 55 equals 5! > > Please reply to the list; > please *don't* CC me. > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users