Squid is not caching!!! Please help

hi all,I just installed and configured squid 2.6 on my machine.Now my squid server is having a ip 192.168.142.80 and I have pointed my browser to the proxy on port 8080.But when I access any web page the access.log always report a TCP_MISS !!!! Even...

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Get your copy of Sun OpenSolaris For Free

In my previous posts, I’d mentioned about Canonical’s Ship It program, which sends Ubuntu disc for free to your door step, Fedora’s Free Media program, which ships Fedora media wherever you it shipped. .I’d also mentioned Oracle sending their Oracle Unbreakable Linux for free(though to date I haven’t received them).  Now, Sun Microsystems joins the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Get your copy of Sun OpenSolaris For Free", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/26/get-your-copy-of-sun-opensolaris-for-free/" });

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Sarg reporting

Hi there,I am a first time user of Sarg and have tried to install it using the rpm file, which looked fine.Didn’t do any configurations and trying to run a report. It gets to 100% and just sits there forever, doesn’t produce any report.Any ...

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BIND/DNS setup working(kinda)

I've got a few domains and I setup BIND for my own nameservers, the only problem is, I can't seem to get virtual hosts on another IP to work.I can ping DOMAIN2 and I get the IP *.*.68.70 but no website loads.I've got 5 IPs on hand so I can switch thi...

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File Associations:Changing/Removing/Adding default applications for particular filetypes in openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1

Consider this situation. You have multiple programs installed for a particular file type. Now double clicking it opens an application, but you want it to open in another application. For example, you want your images to open in showFoto instead of Gwenview, so how do you go about doing this? Let me show you how [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "File Associations:Changing/Removing/Adding default applications for particular filetypes in openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/24/file-associationschangingremovingadding-default-applications-for-particular-filetypes-in-opensuse-11-kde-41/" });

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[How-To]Installing Adobe AIR and AIR Applications on your Linux System

Recently, Adobe had released the beta version of Adobe Integrated Runtime, more commonly known as AIR, for Linux. While this is indeed good news, unfortunately it isn’t available via repositories, meaning you’ll have to download the binaries, set the permissions and install it by launching via command prompt. While this seems pretty complicated, its [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To]Installing Adobe AIR and AIR Applications on your Linux System", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/23/how-toinstalling-adobe-air-and-air-applications-on-your-linux-system/" });

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[How-To] Fix Nautilus File Manager Title Bar(Window Decorator) disappearing when Emerald is enabled

Most of the how-to’s and fixes posted here, are generally my experiences and I post them on how I went about fixing it. This particular how-to was mentioned to me by my very good friend, Bharath, who had this annoying problem of the title bars of every window crashing and disappearing when Emerald is chosen [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Fix Nautilus File Manager Title Bar(Window Decorator) disappearing when Emerald is enabled", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/22/how-to-fix-nautilus-file-manager-bar-disappearing-when-emerald-is-enabled/" });

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My First Ubiquity Command: Lincr It!

By now, you must’ve heard of Ubiquity. If not, well read on! Ubiquity is an add-on to Mozilla’s extremely popular Firefox browser. Ubiquity allows you to do things - say search for something, get the latest weather updates,  book reviews, so on and so forth, just by typing the commands into the Ubiquity input box [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My First Ubiquity Command: Lincr It!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/21/my-first-ubiquity-command-lincr-it/" });

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How to pass the svn protocol/Traffic from the Squid

Hi All         I am using Squid 2.5STABLE. It's  work fine but the In our office they use TortoisesSVN for downloading plugins from net. Problem is that my proxy is not allow to pass svn traffic. They need plugins for there Ruby On Rails projects. ...

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LINUX XP

I have been trying for a week to download the current Linux XP distro.    When I click on the button to download for a 30 days free trial, it seems to be dead.   Anyone know an acutally working link to get the trial distro?    Currently using Ubuntu Ul...

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Gtalk Blocking

Hello,  My self Avin Tokade. I recently joint this cool Linux group.  My problem is that IN my office I unable to block the Gtalk and skype through Squid. How can I block the All the Messenger ? Please Help  

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How Do Different Distros fare against each other in terms of performance ?

The guys at Phoronix have written made an intresting article, comparing the performance of the Asus EEE-PC 901 with its Intel Atom processor Here’s some quotes from the article Late last month we published our preview of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and we shared our plans for a number of benchmarks using this netbook with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Do Different Distros fare against each other in terms of performance ?", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/16/how-do-different-distros-fare-against-each-other-in-terms-of-performance/" });

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domain name server

hello sir greetings with godi am awaneeshi am configuring dns in rhel 5while configuring the dns i am unable to ping my dns and when i check /etc/sysconfig/resolve.conf then i got therenameserver 192.168.0.1only unable to findsearch dns n...

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ICMP Checksum is wrong

Everytime I do a traceroute I receive "ICMP cheksum is wrong. It does not matter where the traceroute is going to the error is almost immediate.

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BIND on RHEL 5

I need help regarding BIND on RHEL 5After installing BIND-9.3.3-7.el5,i am not getting named.conf under /etc? the only files present is named.caching-server.conf and named.rfc1912.zones.which file has to be configured for DNS ? has the newer version ...

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A Handy Wallpaper Displaying Most Common Linux Commands

In the past I’ve done couple of posts explaining few of the common commands. A handy one-glance reference guide is always nice, and that’s exactly what Sindhu has posted. Have a look: Thanks, Sindhu SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Handy Wallpaper Displaying Most Common Linux Commands", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/10/a-handy-wallpaper-displaying-most-common-linux-commands/" });

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WordPress Rolls Out 2.6.2 - Its A Mandatory This Time - And How

The good people over at WordPress released WordPress 2.6.2 today. And unlike the previous 2.6.1 release, this release is a mandatory release, to fix a loophole which occurs if your blog has registrations open. From the horse’s mouth: If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "WordPress Rolls Out 2.6.2 - Its A Mandatory This Time - And How", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/10/wordpress-rolls-out-262-its-a-mandatory-this-time-and-how/" });

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[How To]Automatically Backing Up And Upgrading Your WordPress Installation And WordPress Database

WordPress follows the Open Source policy of release early, release often. While this is a pretty good thing - you get fast releases to security exploits and loads of new features - but updating can be a rather problem, especially so if its something as important as your site’s CMS. Fortunately Keith D’Souza has written a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How To]Automatically Backing Up And Upgrading Your WordPress Installation And WordPress Database", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/10/how-toautomatically-backing-up-and-upgrading-your-wordpress-installation-and-wordpress-database/" });

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Games and Video

Whenever I run a game, a new screen pops up and the video kinda like flashes continually.  It does not happen with all games but most.  The games I know I have been having problems with has been games like Billard-GL, Vega Strike, Flight Gear, Space-Or...

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Use reliance CDMA phone as modem

I follow the tutorial "Use reliance CDMA phone ..." with my desktop PC (Ubuntu 6.10) and CDMA phone JOA L-200. It works well.But with my laptop Acer Aspire 4315 (Ubuntu 7.10) and same CDMA phone, it don't work.Modified file /etc/wvdial.conf:[Modem0]...

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Transparent Proxy using squid and wccp

I have configured my squid to act as the intercepting proxy using wccp plus the cisco router. Everything works ok except yahoo mail and hotmail. When you open for example yahoo mail, you cannot be able to access the inbox folder. But when you use manua...

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DropBox client now available for Linux!

Dropbox - the awesome online file-storage, and syncing utility finally gets a Linux client! The developers have been promising a Linux client since day one and though it took them a while to get it - it’s finally here! Right now a GNOME-only interface is avialable, and here are the Links Fedora Core 9 (x86_64) Fedora Core [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "DropBox client now available for Linux!", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/05/dropbox-client-now-available-for-linux/" });

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Google Chrome - Impressions, Links And Running it in Linux using Wine

Much like most of Google’s projects Google Chrome was launched all of a sudden yesterday. Though it was “discovered” rather “accidentally” by one a Google insider hitting the send button containing the comic-book type images of Google Chrome’s workings(excuse me, a Google guy hitting the “Send” button accidentally? Yeah,right! (Santosh agrees with me too [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google Chrome - Impressions, Links And Running it in Linux using Wine", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/05/google-chrome-impressions-links-and-running-it-in-linux-using-wine/" });

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[How-To] Changing The New Kickoff Menu to Traditional Menu

The release KDE4 brought in the new kickoff menu, the slab-style menu which was first introduced in openSUSE 10.2. The premise is simple - instead of unfolding menu after menu, the submenu opens within the menu itself. What makes the Kickoff a killer is the inclusion of search. While I love Kickoff menu and can’t live [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Changing The New Kickoff Menu to Traditional Menu", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/02/how-to-changing-reverting-going-back-from-the-new-kickoff-kde-menu-to-old-traditional-k-kdemenu/" });

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New Circular Application Menu Makes Its Appearance: Presenting The Circular Application Menu

It seems the past year has been the season of re-invention of menus. The traditional KDE style menu was majorly redesigned and revamped to give the Slab aka Kickoff menu. The next style of menus comes from Cole Anste, who’s put forward and implemented his version of Don Hopkin’s version of the Pie Menu. Images depicting [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Circular Application Menu Makes Its Appearance: Presenting The Circular Application Menu", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/03/new-circular-application-menu-makes-its-appearance-presenting-the-circular-application-menu/" });

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[How-To] Installing Plasmoids, SuperKaramba Widgets and Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets in KDE 4.1

Plasmoids are the little widgets that have made an appearance with KDE4. Plasmoids can basically do anything - from displaying your desktop and associated wallpaper to showing your laptop’s battery level,or even display the latest comics or post a tweet to twitter. While KDE 4 comes with some plasmoids, you can add extra plasmoids [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "[How-To] Installing Plasmoids, SuperKaramba Widgets and Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets in KDE 4.1", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2008/09/01/how-to-installing-plasmoids-superkaramba-widgets-and-mac-os-x-dashboard-widgets-in-kde-41/" });

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Bootable DVD

I am new in Linux world. As I was advised, I download about 9 GB of images, iso files... for Red Hat 9 installation. How can I create CD that will be recognized under Linux boot. I was able to create bootable floppy, but when I insert CD I am getting e...

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