Hi, I read of the problems running up squid. Actually, I found squid2 runs virtually out of the box for me. I made a couple of minor mods to /etc/squid.conf and started it up. "ps ax | grep squid" will tell you if it's running. For me, it starts in /sbin/init.d/squid and with /etc/rc.config having an added variable "START_SQUID = "yes"" Since we have a very poor ISP filter, we also do some front-line filters to stop the worst of the sites get in, including some in foreign languages. Then our ISP does some filtering and that goes via a commercial programme "websense" which is pretty good. The ISP end is only as good as their config. though, which is pretty damn poor. There is no substitute for RAM for Squid, we use 256k ISDN bandwidth and traffic flows most of the school day. The cache is a child to our ISP cache. We are using Roxen at the moment as the www server because it supports a nifty browser e-mail client, but since our workstations run windoze, we use the Pegasus client (excellent - worth getting to know as an administrator and user) so I'll be removing Roxen and going back to Apache. The Intranet won't know the difference. So, Linux runs our DHCP, e-mail services, internet gateway and proxy, intranet server and a couple of other little odd jobs like monitoring our Netware user space for exe files etc. and filtering the student e-mail for abuse. The students use Pegasus and it is NOT configured to run internet e-mail. They have to forward curricular e-mails via the staff tutor for that subject. All staff have full internet e-mail access. -- Best wishes, Derek Harding derek@lagham.zetnet.co.uk
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