Topic: Squid Configuration.

[Ben]

Hi all.

Ive been using e-smith for a while now but I find that my old windows proxy was much easier to configure.

Does anyone know of any add ons to configure squid eaisly? I tweaked the settings manualy but nothing happened!

Im currently using e-smith 5.0 (yeah yeah Mintel) on a Celeron 333 with 64mb ram, 2 x 1.2gb hd, cd rom etc and the machine is on around 12 hours a day using a dial up connection.

Is there any help out there?

Cheers

ben

[enigma]

have a nosey round the contributions section and the Howto's, loadsa stuff there, particularly squidguard

[guestFF]

I agree....

[Ben]

does squidgaurd let me configure the size of squid?
enigma wrote:
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> have a nosey round the contributions section and the Howto's,
> loadsa stuff there, particularly squidguard

[enigma01]

AH! that kind of configuration, sorry i thought you meant user / groups and url blocking and suchlike.

[Jaime Nebrera]

Hi Dan,

  I have been told that this has been solved in SME 5.0, in e-smith 4.1.2 there is a bug.

  The two most important directives that you might want to change (make a template-custom of course) are:

  cache_mem 8

  I have increased it to 20 (MB) in a 256 MB RAM machine. You should expect squid to use 2x to 3x this memory to work

  cache_dir ufs /var/log/squid 100 16 256

  Here is where I found the bug in 4.1.2 (already reported). You need to uncomment the line, specify ufs as the filesystem type (in 4.1.2 this is missing) and increase 100 to say 300 (MB)