In my network I have Squid proxy server for caching deb-archives. It is installed as squid-deb-proxy package.
I know that special package squid-deb-proxy-client exists in the repositories.
But it requires avahi-utils as a dependency.
How can I set APT on client machines to use squid-deb-proxy without squid-deb-proxy-client?
I got this error upon starting Squid Proxy Server using the command sudo squid -z
fatal: ipc::mem::segment::create failed to shm_open(/squid-cf__metadata.shm): 13 permission denied
How shall I fix it? Im using version 3.5.26 of Squid. I tried any fixes I found in the web but nothing works. I tried implementing the fix below I found in the web:
Just add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 After that use (as root): # mount shm
Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Another possible fix on the web is error reading squid.pid
squid: ERROR: Could not read pid file /var/run/squid.pid: (13) Permission denied
Unfortunately, as I look in my directory, I could not find squid.pid. How will I get my Squid working? Thanks.
I'm currently running squid-deb-proxy to cache apt-related downloads, I was wondering if the same could be done with snaps as well.
I've got squid-deb-proxy, avahi-tools, and squid-deb-proxy-client installed on a gateway VM running 12.04 Server, and squid-deb-proxy-client installed on two client VMs running Lubuntu and Xubuntu 12.04.
The service appears to be up and running according to htop, and I can see considerable activity when the clients update/upgrade, and I see activity in the log files... but I'm not seeing any cache being stored in /var/spool/squid3 - or anywhere else.
What should I be looking for to tell if its really working?
To save bandwidth and data on my Internet plan, I have installed squid-deb-proxy on a desktop, and the client on it and a few other machines I've got. However, based on the post that put me onto this , it sounds like if I take my laptop* to a different network and update it there, the downloaded updates will NOT be automatically copied back to the squid-deb-proxy server when I get back on my network.
Assuming that this is correct (I will be testing later), is there a way I can stick these packages into the cache so I don't have to download them one more time for other machines in the network?
* As noted in the comments, I could simply make the laptop the proxy server, but in my specific case, the laptop is actually 1) a VM that is not running all the time, 2) in a laptop that is not open all the time. As such, that solution, while a good one, does not work in my case.