Squid asking for visible_hostname

phatboyz · 03-23-2004, 10:11 AM

I am running the command squid -z to make the swap directorys and it si giving me this error. What do I need to do to fix this?

[root@backupsvr root]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -z
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE5): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.010 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 260
Aborted
[root@backupsvr root]#

mardanian · 03-24-2004, 04:27 AM

in your squid.conf define it

visible_hostname mysquid ------->(mysquid could be any name)

phatboyz · 03-27-2004, 08:32 PM

Thank you I found it now. Squid is working but I have not worked with all the acls.

mfran2002 · 10-05-2005, 02:28 AM

sorry,
i've the same problem

i put the name in squid.conf but the problem still remain...

i've to do something else?

thanks

lanczer · 10-05-2005, 03:37 AM

After when you edit squid.conf you have to stop squid and run it again for exzample in shell put command:
> service squid restart (Red hat)
or
> killall -9 squid
> squid
PS. You have to add this in squid.conf file:
visible_hostname myname or my squid ip