On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:17:28 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > squid.conf is a CONFIGURATION FILE that happens to have a lot of > instructions for use embedded in it. Everything that starts with a # > sign is a "remark" and is ignored by the program. Yes, I understand the use of # in "commenting out" > That way, you can > have the instructions for use right beside and along with the actual > configuration directions that the program reads and follows. Yes, of course; but when the instructions are pure geekish ... >> I tried blindly adding a line -- so that the passage now reads : >> >> >> # TAG: visible_hostname >> # If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, >> etc, # define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname() >> # will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and # >> get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have #individual >> names with this setting. >> # >> #Default: >> # none >> Hbsk2.localdomain >> >> -- except that I can't make it format right in this post. >> >> Was that supposed to make it work? > > Close, but not quite. Notice that the instructions tell you that the > tag is visible_hostname. You have to tell squid what Hbsk2.localdomain > means using the specified tag. "tag" is not only geekish, but spark-nail-new geekish to me. > visible_hostname Hbsk2.localdomain > > Like that. OK, I changed it to that. And neither Ffx not galeon can see any site not p[rotected from proxies even yet. :-( Gotta go. Talk atcha tomorrow. Don't think I don't appreciate it. -- 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
