Topic: can't surf but "can" do everything else

[MeHere]

for some reason last night .. without anyone playing with the server settings, I can not surf from behind my sme server. everything else seems to work, i.e. email, putty, vpn, etc... but not surfing. can anyone PLEASE help me out on this one. I'm at my wits end and I have too many people depending on me and my server to be working without a hitch...  

[MeHere]

is it possible that it's my squid.. seems it's not running and i can't seem to get it running..

btw.. i'm running 6.0

[meanpenguin]

Try turning off the proxy detect on the browser.

Ed

[MeHere]

Try turning off the proxy detect on the browser.

Ed

unfortunately that would have been too easy of a fix, it was one of the first things i tried   it seems as though i can not get squid to run at all...

any ideas are greatly appreciated...

[briank]

What happens when you type service squid start at command line?
Use ps -aux to see if squid is running.
Why do you think squid isn't running, could it be a DNS issue?
Cheers
Brian

[MeHere]

What happens when you type service squid start at command line?
Use ps -aux to see if squid is running.
Why do you think squid isn't running, could it be a DNS issue?
Cheers
Brian

when i try to start squid it doesn't do anything, it will show up in ps -aux after i run it .. but after doing  squid -k check   it say's it is not running, then upon shutting down the server, it gives and error on shutting down the service...

I have restored the backup of that server on another and have the system up and running.. but I would still like to fix the original server, so if you or anyone have any ideas, i'de love to try them out..

[meanpenguin]

Just the obvious things to check since
you did not mention anything about the logs.
Anything in /var/log/messages about squid?
How about in the squid's log files

Ed