FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Pleaseset 'visible_hostname'

[Peter Collier]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:40, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Joeffrey Betita wrote:
> > hi paul below is the configuration of squid.conf
> > 
> > #  TAG: visible_hostname <==== this configuration is to be changed to the
> > name of the PC? i've been editing still the same.
> 
> Yes, that's the one it's telling you to use. So you need a line like:
> 
> visible_hostname squid.example.com
> 
> Does that still not work?
> 
> What is the output of the "hostname" command on your comouter?
> 
> Paul.

I had the same problem. As Paul says, type in hostname at the prompt in
a terminal. Whatever it returns, write that after visible_hostname in
squid config. Don't put an = sign in as I did, you'll get an error
message again.

Peter