[K12OSN] problem starting squid

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Just append a line to the config file like:
> visible_hostname=myhost.mydomain.org
>
> It may require spaces around the =
> On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 16:15 -0400, Jim Anderson wrote:
> > I am trying to configure a squid proxy and a transparent proxy and I
> > am having issues.  I am using K12LTSP 5.0.  I am trying to proxy all
> > terminal clients that connect to the LTSP server but I am having
> > problems starting squid.  I get the following error:
> >
> > FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname.  Please set
> > 'visible_hostname'
> >
> > Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE14): Terminated abnormally.
> > CPU Usage: 0.008 seconds = 0.004 user + 0.004 sys
> > Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> > Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> > Aborted
> >
> > I am using K12LTSP V.5.0.  I cannot see where to set visible hostname
> > in the config files.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim Anderson

Or better yet, make sure that there is fully qualified name of this server
in the /etc/hosts file, say:
192.168.mmm.nnn squidhost.mydomain.com squidhost