Squidview, Squid, and FreeBSD

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p8
squid 3.0.STABLE21
squidview 0.73

Great little program to make sense of the large access.log file created by Squid.

I installed from the ports:
Code:
cd /usr/ports/www/squidview && make install clean

There are no configuration options for squidview

It did not work out of the box for me because of the location of the access.log file, but the fix was simple. I just removed the squidview directory created during installation and then recreate it with a link to my access.log.

In my case the access.log is in the default location for squid 3.0.

Code:
rm /root/.squidview/log1
ln -s /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log /root/.squidview/log1

After this I started squidview and all was well:
/usr/local/bin/squidview start

The feature I like the best is the Tally Mode, a near real-time monitoring tool that lets you know how much your users are doing online.
 
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