Squid on RedHat Enterprise Linux

Pre-Built Binary Packages

Jiri Skala @ RedHat maintains experimental squid packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. These packages are unofficial and are not supported by Red Hat. They are intended for RHEL users who would like to try newer squid packages.

Squid-3.3

• Maintainer: Unofficial packages built by Eliezer Croitoru which can be used on RHEL.

• RHEL 6 Download: http://repo.ngtech.co.il/rpm/

Squid-3.2

• Maintainer: Unofficial packages built by Eliezer Croitoru which can be used on RHEL.

• RHEL 6 Download: http://repo.ngtech.co.il/rpm/

Squid-3.1

• Maintainer: Jiri Skala @ RedHat

• RHEL 5 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/squid-3.1.8-1.el5

• RHEL 6 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/

Squid-3.0

• Maintainer: Jiri Skala @ RedHat

• RHEL 5 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/squid-3.0.STABLE25-1.el5

Squid-2.7

• Maintainer: Jiri Skala @ RedHat

• RHEL 5 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/squid-2.7.STABLE9-1.el5

• RHEL 4 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/squid-2.7.STABLE9-1.el4

Squid-2.6

• Maintainer: Jiri Skala @ RedHat

• RHEL 5 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/squid-2.6.STABLE23-1.el5

• RHEL 4 Download: http://people.redhat.com/jskala/squid/squid-2.6.STABLE23-1.el4

Compiling

The following ./configure options install Squid into the RedHat structure properly:

  --prefix=/usr
  --includedir=/usr/include
  --datadir=/usr/share
  --bindir=/usr/sbin
  --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid
  --localstatedir=/var
  --sysconfdir=/etc/squid

Troubleshooting

• SELinux on RHEL 5 does not give the proper context to the default SNMP port (3401) as of selinux-policy-2.4.6-106.el5

The command to takes care of this problem is:

semanage port -a -t http_cache_port_t -p udp 3401

(via http://tanso.net/selinux/squid/)

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