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Status: Solved
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Last Modified: 2011-08-18

squid is stopped FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

I run squid it show
squid is stopped
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

Please help

teera

Asked: 2005-03-11

Linux

1 Solution

LVL 3

Ravi GoruTechnical ConsultantCommented: 2005-03-12

Please set 'visible_hostname' in squid.conf !!

LVL 6

makhanCommented: 2005-03-12

you need to set a name for your machine...

please give the following commands as root and post the output.

hostname

domainname

you can set the hostname in etc/hosts file

teeraAuthor Commented: 2005-03-12

[root@lamaiwanta root]# hostname lamaiwanta
[root@lamaiwanta root]# domain
bash: domain: command not found
[root@lamaiwanta root]#

LVL 8

marxyCommented: 2005-03-12

Edit your squid.conf with

visible_hostname <what_u_want>

where <what_u_want> will be the hostname that's been used by
squid to identify itself

Good practice is to set the hostname of you box
edit /etc/sysconfig/network with
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=<what_u_want>

For some linux you need to create a file
/etc/HOSTNAME where simply put the name of your host

Edit /etc/hosts and add
<your_ip_addres1> <what_u_want1>
<your_ip_addres2> <what_u_want2>

After these changes do
/etc/init.d/network restart

to apply the changes