Squid on slackware

[Doogee]

i have set up squid using your squid and adzapper tutorial. how do i actually start the squid daemon, and is it ok for the machine that the proxy is on to be the same as the browser?

[Master of Reality]

so you have squid running on your machine just to zap ads for you?
I dont think there is anything wrong with that.

chmod the /etc/rc.d/rc.squid as executable (chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.squid) and it should start at startup. Or just run '/etc/rc.d/rc.squid start'

Im not sure but you might have to run squid -z first to create the cache directories

[Doogee]

i have no /etc/rc.d/rc.squid

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root@dans-computer:/etc/rc.d# ls
rc.0@  rc.M*      rc.atalk         rc.gpm*      rc.inet1.conf  rc.local*    rc.nfsd*    rc.sendmail*  rc.sysvinit*
rc.4*  rc.S*      rc.bind          rc.hotplug*  rc.inet2*      rc.lprng     rc.pcmcia*  rc.serial*    rc.yp*
rc.6*  rc.acpid*  rc.cups          rc.httpd     rc.inetd*      rc.modules*  rc.portmap  rc.sshd*
rc.K*  rc.alsa*   rc.font.sample*  rc.inet1*    rc.ip_forward  rc.mysqld    rc.samba    rc.syslog*


[Master of Reality]

well maybe i made one myself, or i am probably running a different version of squid than you. I have 3.0 running.

You can just start squid by running "squid" on the command line as root.

To have it run at startup you should have an /etc/rc.d/rc.squid and then an entry in rc.M that starts that script.

This is what my rc.squid is. Its just a simple script to start/stop/restart the squid server

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Start the Squid proxy server
#

case "$1" in
   'start')
      /usr/sbin/squid start ;;
   'stop')
      /usr/sbin/squid stop ;;
   'restart')
      /usr/sbin/squid restart ;;
   *)
      echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac


and then in my /etc/rc.d/rc.M on lines 187-191
there is this. Which will look to see if rc.squid is executable and then run it at startup.

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# Start Squid Proxy server
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.squid ]; then
  . /etc/rc.d/rc.squid start
fi

[Doogee]

AWESOME that worked very well.


I like squid