Hello Adam,
Depending on how adventurous you are, you might try installing Webmin. (http://www.webmin.com) It has a very nice GUI for administrating most services on a Linux host. (Especially Squid).
However, to really understand the power of Squid and make use of it, I would recommend understanding the Squid configuration file.
Tim
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Hello Squid users,
Is it possible someone can point me in the right direction? I have just installed Redhat9 which has squid installed as a componant. It seems to be installed in /etc/squid (certainly this is where the squid.conf file is located).
In all the faq's I have searched through it would seem it is normally installed in /usr/local/squid/etc. This itself has thrown me. Have I missed a step I am asuming because it is bundled software I dont need to compile it?!
So my next assumtion was that I would need to modify the squid.conf file. This seems fairly strait forward with a little help from the FAQ's however There are a few questions I have either found the answer to and dont really comprehend or haven't been able to find.
Firstly I have configured the ports for incomming requests from my workstations and I am happy with that and because the Local education authority run a filtering proxy service i am aware i need to set a parent proxy and the port to connect to it. this is where my problem lies, If i set it as a parent proxy and set the port for Squid to connect to it all well and good, but what happens with the returned traffic from the parent I assume it will come back on the same port I connect to the parent on, however, I dont have a clue as to where in the squid.conf this should be configured.
I would be much obliged if someone could help me I have already made one fruitless trip to the friendly computer supermarket who fail to stock any books on squid. So I will have to try and dig out my old redhat bible.
Thanks for your time
Adam
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