Re: [squid-users] Upgrade from Squid 2.5 Stable6 to Squid 2.6 Stable19 - Part II

> Thompson, Scott (WA) wrote:
>> Sorry in my previous post I assumed I was running 2.6 Stable 6 and I
>> wanted to u/g to Stable 19 but it appears I am running 2.5 Stable6 and I
>> want to u/g to Squid 2.6 Stable 19
>>
>
> Some configuration changes might be needed to migrate from 2.5 to 2.6.
> See
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/squid-2.6.STABLE1-RELEASENOTES.html#s1
> for details.
>
>> I have found that when I run squid -v I get the following output
>>
>> Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE6
>> configure options: --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu
>> --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>> --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
>> --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share
>> --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
>> --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man
>> --infodir=/usr/share/info --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/sbin
>> --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/squid
>> --enable-poll --enable-snmp --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru
>> --enable-storeio=aufs,coss,diskd,null,ufs --enable-ssl
>> --with-openssl=/usr/kerberos --enable-delay-pools
>> --enable-linux-netfilter --with-pthreads
>> --enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=SMB,winbind
>> --enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group,unix_group,wbinfo_group
>> ,winbind_group --enable-auth=basic,ntlm --with-winbind-auth-challenge
>> --enable-useragent-log --enable-referer-log
>> --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost
>> --disable-ident-lookups --enable-truncate --enable-underscores
>> --datadir=/usr/share
>> --enable-basic-auth-helpers=LDAP,MSNT,NCSA,PAM,SMB,YP,getpwnam,multi-dom
>> ain-NTLM,SASL,winbind
>>
>> Does that mean I can just run ./configure from the folder in which I
>> extracted the Squid 2.6 Stable19 files with the above command line
>> switches and I will have Stable 19 installed? I assume I would have to
>> restart the squid service!
>>
>
> You can, but you might want to pare down the list a little. I start
> with "configure --prefix=/usr --includedir=/usr/include
> --datadir=/usr/share --bindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid
> --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/squid" to use the RedHat
> directories and add options from there.

Thank you. There is a wiki page I'm trying to make useful:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CompilingSquid

Are there any other must-knows for RedHat?

>
>> Any info would be greatly appreciated
>>
>
> Be aware that the RHEL 5 Squid package
> (squid-2.6.STABLE6-5.el5_1.3.i386.rpm) adds a configuration directive
> (max_filedesc) which is not present in the non-RedHat-customized version.
>

The most recent releases of Squid have configure options --with-maxfd=N
(2.x) or --with-filedescriptors=N (3.x) which replace that old RH
squid.conf directive.

>> Scott
>>
>
> Chris
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 24 2008 - 04:07:21 MDT