Re: [squid-users] Squid on AIX

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:03:59 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Joost de Heer wrote:

> Does anyone have Squid running on AIX? The company I work for recently
> took over managing the IT-infrastructure of a large company, and part of
> that infrastructure were two squid's on AIX 5.1. The servers are currently
> running Squid 2.4STABLE7, and I'd like to upgrade this to 2.5.

Good idea.

> Some questions:
> - In the FAQ, setting some environment vars for allowing more than 256 MB
> memory are mentioned. However, in the (scarce) documentation I got from
> the previous operator, I read that IBM told them that that doesn't always
> work. Is this still the case?

Can't help you there. Know very little about AIX.

> - The old maintainer also mentioned that there were problems with
> passwords with $ and other 'strange' characters in passwords when using
> Squid 2.5 on AIX. These problems didn't occur on a Linux machine. Is this
> a known issue? As authenticator scheme, squid_auth_rad is used.

This shouldn't be OS dependent.

For strange characters for work with Squid-2.5 you need to use an
authenticator designed to be used with Squid-2.5.

The radius helper available from
http://www.squid-cache.org/contrib/squid_radius_auth/ should work fine
with Squid-2.5.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 08:04:01 MDT

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