On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:54:11 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: [....] > If you want to set up a new Firefox correctly and reasonably securely > (for certain values of correct and secure, of course), read my article > here: > > http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/squid-privoxy/index.html > > You can tweak the privoxy configuration to determine how it handles many > things (including referrers) and you won't have to have 6 million (or > three dozen) Firefox extensions loaded. OK, I've never had the nerve to try tweaking privoxy, either. But I went to your site, copied the sample squid config file, installed squid, cd'd root to /etc/squid, moved squid.conf.default to a backup, created a new one with "nano -w squid.conf.default," and copied your version into it. Then I got this : [root@Hbsk2 squid]# cd [root@Hbsk2 ~]# /usr/sbin/squid -z FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname' Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE7): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.012 seconds = 0.007 user + 0.005 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 [root@Hbsk2 ~]# I don't know what a qualified hostname is, fully or not. Since these posts I've had a thread called "VDQ : machine names??" I did two of the three things recommended by Phil Meyer, and was warned about the third before doing it. I now have [root@Hbsk2 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=Hbsk2.localdomain [root@Hbsk2 ~]# and [root@Hbsk2 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:1e:8c:a3:89:22 ONBOOT=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no DHCP_HOSTNAME=Hbsk2.localdomain TYPE=Ethernet [.... etc....] but I remain confused about /etc/hosts, and the same Phil Meyer had also said > It looks like your 'hostname' was not in /etc/hosts, so don't change it. > :) Mostly folks with fixed IPs or servers mess with /etc/hosts and then > forget they did it. :) So I have not touched /etc/hosts. What need I do to make /usr/sbin/squid -z work? Maybe I'm just outta my depth here. I have to say that config file would take me years of effort just to read through. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
