Hi...

I would like web pages to load faster when I surf the internet on my local machine using squid 2.5 Stable 1.

but First of all, is it possible that squid can accelerate web surfing on my local box (i.e my local machine will be both a client and server?)

Secondly, I installed squid from the Red Hat 9 CDs with me. Now when I give the command

service squid start

I get the following error

init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/init.d/squid: line 163: 2338 Aborted $SQUID -z -F -D 2>/dev/null
Starting squid: /etc/init.d/squid: line 163: 2339 Aborted $SQUID $SQUID_OPTS 2>/dev/null
[FAILED]

Whats wrong with squid here? Any suggestion on how to make squid work for me ???

Regards,

--amit

it will speed up some things, as it caches (downloads) the sites you visit, so for sites you go on frequently your viewing locally sometimes, and as for the error.. i have no idea.. i'd ask to see your squid.conf, but it's huge.. i'll look into it for you.

have you tried googling the error message?

squid doesn;t recommend you let the local box use the squid service. This is to avoid loops I suppose. However, if you want to allow localhost to access the squid proxy service then you can. But make sure your config allows it, because it is not enabled by default.

I think you have to start squid the first time with the parameter -z to create the cache.