i couldnt for the life of me figure out why squid (the web proxy) in smoothwall would not start, until while looking at another problem i perused through some logs (in /var/log/squid) and found a file there called cache.log.1

 

a quick look in it revealed

 

Quote:2005/01/02 21:53:55| Current Directory is /home/httpd/cgi-bin2005/01/02 21:53:55| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'ln_fw'

 

and that was it !

 

that little _ (illegal hostname charecter) was causing squid to fail to start,

 

to fix it, i had to as root type

 

setup

 

scroll down to hostname

 

and change the hostname from ln_fw to lnfw

 

saved the changes and rebooted, and all is fine now

 

for those of you that don't use smoothwall or squid check out what it can report in this screenshot

 

cheers

 

anyweb

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