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if squid won't start in smoothwall - anyweb - 2005-01-02
i couldnt for the life of me figure out why squid (the web proxy) in smoothwall would not start, until while looking at another problem i perused through some logs (in /var/log/squid) and found a file there called cache.log.1
a quick look in it revealed
Quote:2005/01/02 21:53:55| Current Directory is /home/httpd/cgi-bin2005/01/02 21:53:55| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'ln_fw'
and that was it !
that little _ (illegal hostname charecter) was causing squid to fail to start,
to fix it, i had to as root type
setup
scroll down to hostname
and change the hostname from ln_fw to lnfw
saved the changes and rebooted, and all is fine now
for those of you that don't use smoothwall or squid check out what it can report in this screenshot
cheers
anyweb
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