I've just built a home server/router with an Atom processor and Viking ADSL card, with the intension of running a content filter and providing a file server, and possible a mail server in the future.

I am not totally new to Linux having used desktop for about 9mths and have played with a testbed with server 10.04 32 bit. I had Squid/Dansguardian and ClamAV working on the testbed.

I've got Ubuntu Server 10.10 64bit running with OpenSSH, Webmin. I've setup the ADSL card as a bridge and PPPOE running. Masquerading is setup. A DHCP server using DHCP3 is running. My home network of 2 dual load PCs (a desktop and a laptop) are both running without incident.

When I try install Squid I get the following.

Setting up squid (2.7.STABLE9-2ubuntu5) ...
start: Job failed to start
dpkg: error processing squid (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
squid
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

If I set the desktop PC proxy settings to direct traffic to the proxy on the server it tells me:

"The proxy server is refusing connections
Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections.
* Check the proxy settings to make sure that they are correct.

* Contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is
working."

If I look in /etc/init.d squid isn't there??

I've tried remove and install again and also loaded Tinyproxy all to no avail.

I can't get Dansguardian working without a proxy server. I'm at a loss.

Suggestions?

seems you couldn't even _install_ squid. no wonder you couldn't run it neither.
try to find why you couldn't install.

A Locate squid shows squid commands all over the place. I installed with sudo apt-get install squid. all seemed ok until it came time to start squid. I've removed and installed again, no change. Ive also tried tinyproxy. All no good.

I have no idea if squid is not installing but it looks ok, apart from not being in /etc/init.d. I managed to install squid/dansguardian/clamav on my test bed with no issues.

I would appreciate some guidance on how to check the install. I'm totally reliant on apt to load stuff.

Scott

Removed, cleaned, used autoremove and re installed. Changed Dansguardian socket to 8888. Now working?? already tried this before posting, not sure what was different!