Comment 18 for bug 12709

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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:26:00 +0100
From: Oliver Siegmar <email address hidden>
To: Luigi Gangitano <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#294431: Installation error on machines lacking a FQDN

Pronto Luigi,

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 23:09, Luigi Gangitano wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 09-02-2005 alle 21:46 +0100, Oliver Siegmar ha scritto:
> > The spool directory isn't created and therefore squid won't start.
> >
> > So the package _IS_ unusable until you edit /etc/squid.conf and set
> > visible_hostname to something.
>
> Exactly as any other package that administrator has not completely
> configured. For example postgresql is unusable if administrator doens't
> create users and databases.

That's not true. When PostgreSQL is installed the user postgres is added to
the system and the database template0 and template1 are created.

But that's not the matter. The matter is, that the installation script of
squid doesn't say "Hey you haven't set a FQDN on your box - squid can't live
without that. Please provide these information within /etc/hosts or by
setting visible_hostname in /etc/squid.conf" ...or something.
Instead it throws tons of errors showing "Terminated abnormally" - that's just
an unhandled (very confusing) exception that should be fixed.

> BTW, can you please report if during install you specified hostname and
> domain name. If this is the case, this bug is not for squid but for
> general, since the installation didn't set /etc/hosts correctly.

I'll provide this information by tomorrow - I'll ask the installer guy.

Cheers
Oliver