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squid3 PAM_Auth authentication not working

I'm attempting to run a squid3 proxy server with authentication for any user that has a login to the server. I've followed these instructions, and I am prompted for a username and password when I ...
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squid-deb-proxy on client side unable to get packages from the server

I am having 2 laptops on one of them I did a do-release-upgrade and it took near about 10 hours to upgrade to 12.04 now I want to upgrade second laptop also so I used following thread Best way to ...
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squid + iptables not working

I would like to setup a proxy on my ubuntu VM to test a PHP script that must use a proxy. I installed Squid and made some things with iptables command. I wrote : sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --...
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How to monitor data usage for each account using 'squid'?

Suppose I were to build proxy server using squid with multiple accounts. Is there a way to determine how much data has been consumed by each account? By data I mean total sum of all bytes which are ...
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How to authenticate Squid against a custom backend?

I want to setup a proxy service using squid and want it to authenticate against a database or another service. There is an example config at http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/...
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Squid or DansGuardian: Which should pass content to an antivirus product for scanning?

I have an Ubuntu Server12.04 installation acting as a proxy server using Squid 3.1.19. Squid has been configured to pass content to SquidClamAV 6.10 to check for viruses (using icap): icap_service ...
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Restricting access to yahoo.com with squid and elinks [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Restricting access to sites I need to restrict the access to yahoo.com and fr.yahoo.com in elinks using squid. Can everyoane help me
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Unable to use apt-get or cpan

I am using Ubuntu 12.10. A few days back I needed to change my proxy for connecting to the internet at my institute. After that I can't access the internet through terminal like can't install CPAN lib ...
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Why do I get "Host not found" when using a restricted Squid proxy in Elinks?

I want to block in elinks the Yahoo sites (www.yahoo.com and all its subdomains fr.yahoo.com, etc). I tried with Squid (squid.conf): acl Badsites dstdomain .yahoo.com http_acces deny Badsites and in ...
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squid on ubuntu server stops working in specific time period for specific websites

I have newly set up a proxy server for about 210 users. It runs ubuntu server 2012 and squid3. The problem is just after 1:30 am, if the users try to open google.com, youtube.com, facebook.com or ...
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How to setup and configure Proxy Server in Linux box for a network? [duplicate]

In Ubuntu, I am going to start Squid and Squish for proxy setup, but have problems in squid to make every workstation use proxy. Setup and configuration of squid is working properly, for testing ...
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Squid3 dns resolution error

Squid3 on ubuntu 12.04 returns ipv6 addresses instead of ipv4. I have no ipv6 network therfeore connection fails. DNS resolution directly on the server returns ipv4 addresses.
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will squid-deb-proxy be used for release upgrades?

I am in the process of updating a bunch of machines to 12.xx. For regular package updates I tried apt-proxy, which had random hiccups (clients hanging on various headers). Now I installed apt-cacher-...
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Squid logs retention

I have Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS installed. Squid keeps only last 3 days logs. Does anybody know how to increase this duration? I use cron to rotate them on daily basis.
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not accessible local host 127.0.0.1 of squid proxy server in ubuntu

I have configure squid proxy server on ubuntu 11.10. it's working fine but when i accessed local host 127.0.0.1 in firefox browser it shows an error unable to connect & Firefox can't establish a ...
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Squid Proxy Server not working ubuntu 12 04

long time ago while using ubuntu 10.04 i have install squid server and webmin and never check it. i know that webmin wont work for long time with ubuntu higher level so that why im back using 10.04 at ...
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How to make a Squid Proxy server?

I want to set up squid proxy server for monitoring user activity in a network and Internet Web URL filtering for user. I also want to configure the user login, user log, user access group, and block ...
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How do I get Squid to run as an anonymous proxy?

I have just installed Squid to make an anonymous proxy. I wasn't able to connect to it, so I used the following commands in this exact order. start squid, the response: squid start/running, process ...
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How to configure a blacklist in Squid 3?

I configure squid like this, but the blacklist doesn't work. I look for something in the web, but nothing. #SQUID squid.conf http_port 8080 ##########################################################...
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how to To set your Squid server to listen on TCP port 8888

how to To set your Squid server to listen on TCP port 8888 instead of the default TCP port 3128, change the http_port directive as such: http_port 8888 When I write http_port 8888 i get command ...
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Squid: caching *.swf with variables

I'd recently upgraded my Ubuntu 11.10 x64 server to 12.04. In this process Squid was updated from 2.7 to 3.1. Squid 3.1 has many different options witch broke my setup. So I completely removed squid 2....
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Squid3 fails to start on boot

Squid3 does not start automatically on boot, in some cases. I have start it manually with sudo service squid3 start. Any reason why?
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How to tell if squid-deb-proxy is working?

I've got squid-deb-proxy, avahi-tools, and squid-deb-proxy-client installed on a gateway VM running 12.04 Server, and squid-deb-proxy-client installed on two client VMs running Lubuntu and Xubuntu 12....
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Can Squid be used to cache updates for other distros?

Specifically, if I have a small virtual LAN with multiple VMs of each different distro - say three CentOS VMs, two Debian VMs, and assorted Ubuntu VMs - can Squid safely cache the updates for each ...
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Problem with squid on EC2

I created an instance from the canonical AMI that have ubuntu server 12.04 64bit and install squid. The only changed to the /etc/squid3/squid.conf file was: acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 per ...
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How do I remove a site from squidGuard blacklist?

I have just installed squidguard in my server to restrict porn or adult site. I followed these instruction. It's working great. Problem is squiguard list(blacklist) youtube.com as porn site. I want ...
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How to add packages to a squid-deb-proxy cache?

To save bandwidth and data on my Internet plan, I have installed squid-deb-proxy on a desktop, and the client on it and a few other machines I've got. However, based on the post that put me onto this ,...
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Why is there a squid user account?

I just noticed that there is a user account in my Ubuntu installation and I can not recall creating it myself. I understand that Squid is a proxy manager but I don't know why should there be a user ...
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Squid 3 Installation error

I am trying to install squid using command sudo apt-get install squid but I am getting following error -- betgbs@proxy-server:~$ sudo apt-get install squid Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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Simple and easy way to bypass blocked sites

My ISP blocks a lot of websites so I need an easy way to bypass it. I use a proxy to bypass it. What if I use my own squid server will it bypass my ISP block sites? I need an easy and simple way to ...
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Restricting access to sites

I'm having some problems configuring my local proxy server so that it would restrict access to certain websites. The proxy server I'm using is Squid; I edited its configuration file found in /etc/...
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How do I restrict access to certain web sites?

I have installed elinks and squid and I need to restrict access to yahoo.com(including subdomains. for example, fr.yahoo.com). How do I permanently configure elinks(or squid) to forbid access to yahoo....
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Squid proxy server (or iptables) will not let my users send or receive mail

I have an Ubuntu 10.04 box that was once configured as Squid Transparent Proxy. Navigation was perfect: my windows clients had no troubles. The problem I had was that users were not able send or ...
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How can I share my Internet connection through USB?

Is there a way to share an Internet connection from PC (wlan0 interface) with an Android Phone connected through USB (usb0 interface with usb-tethering)? I guess it's possible with squid, but I don't ...
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Benefits of using Squid proxy in Ubuntu Server

What are some of the benefits of installing Squid Proxy in an Ubuntu Server that is sharing its Internet connection to a group of PCs in a LAN.
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Squid proxy not working, using Ubuntu Server 10.04 and two NICs. One is connected to WAN and other to LAN

I am trying to setup a proxy server but I am unable to do it. Here is the details of my setup I have one Server(IBM X3800 series) and one Desktop PC. Server is having to network card connected to it. ...
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How do I pre-populate a squid proxy with a Ubuntu installation?

I have an installation service in a central data centre and proxies in other data centres and need to pre-populate those proxies with the contents of the installation. What's the best way to do this? ...
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Squid has "sum hash mismatch" errors with bz2 files

I've been experiencing problems with my squid3 recently, I am using 10.04.3 LTS. Configured squid as always have been configuring since 8.04.04, but its not working as it should be. I've been ...
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How to install squid-deb-proxy-client via preseed/early_command

Using Lucid, installing from the Lucid mini.iso. Both AMD64. In the following I've tried as \, all of apt-get, apt-install, anna-install, dpkg: d-i preseed/early_command string <cmd+opt> ...
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Where I can I find Zentyal ?

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. Does anyone know where I can find a version of Zentyal for it? I heard that webmin is not available any more, and I had a problem with it, so I'm trying to change ...
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Squid Proxy Problem to arised after update

When I restart squid web proxy service, I receive the following errors. What are these errors? /etc/init.d/squid restart Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) ...
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start/stop taking too much time

On my ubuntu machine, I have squid3 as a daemon which starts at boot. The problem is that squid3 takes a long time to start and stop (more than 30 seconds) and it has also slowed down my OS startup/...
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Stopping daemons from loading at boot time

I want to stop some daemons from loading at boot time, specially squid3. What is the best way of doing this?
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Squid or Polipo

Currently I am using Squid3 on my netbook, which has an Atom N450 processor and 1 GB of RAM running ubuntu. The proxy is used to share the internet connection with a small group of PC's (3 machines) ...
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Unable to connect to freenode because of open proxy

When I connect to freenode, I am getting the following error. You are banned from this server- Your host is an open proxy (HTTP GET (3128)). Email [email protected] ...
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Any idea how to use tail -f in Squid to see logging and processing on localhost?

Squid is good one, also webmin. I am still new to this, can someone helping how to see the Squid progress in terminal or in webmin? I mean when we open some site its going also on squid and showing ...
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How can I see the size of the Squid cache?

Anyone know how to see the space on squid? I mean the cache space on the squid that is being used, like the available space and used space of the cache itself, thanks!
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