[plug] I think I broke it: Was:I've got my two computers going...thanks for assistance

[John Summerfield]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, David Buddrige wrote:

> I figured it out - SQUID wasn't running after I rebooted the computer... 
> even though it appears as /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K25squid in the startup 
> scripts... I tried starting SQUID manually when I turned on the computer 
> but it failed with a DNS problem... It seems to need to have the 
> internet connected before it will allow me to run squid... and of 
> course, when it loads (in the startup script), it hasn't yet connected 
> to the internet... hence it fails, and then (a few moments later) the 
> modem kicks in automatically, and connects to the net - but by then 
> Squid has already fallen over... I'm using squid.novm... does anyone 
> know if this is a particular flavour that has some kind of 
> eccentricities I should know about?
> 

You probably don't need it when you're offline. Why not add starting it to
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local and take it down again in /etc/ppp/ip-down.local

Cheers
John Summerfield
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