[aklug] Re: Squid

Use awstats instead of webalizer.

Put simply, webalizer sucks. Awstats is prettier, can be updated on the
fly (please note, you don't want the people on the internet doing that,
but obviously you can restrict that), and is much easier to work with.

Glenn Copeland wrote:
> In case anyone is interested. I have a windows network with roughly 170
> users. We needed a cost effective way to filter out internet content. I
> took a P4 2.8, 1GB ram, 40GB IDE computer and I installed Debian Lenny,
> Squid and SquidGuard, apache2 to host my blocked page on it and it is
> running like a champ. Installed Webalizer to get reports. We had a peak of
> 14k+ hit requests in an hour. I don't know how to get response time, but
> since I am a user, I have noticed no degradation in my surfing speed.
> Purpose of this was to filter out certain sites (social networking,
> jobsearching, etc). We looked at a Cisco product, but it was around $4k +
> yearly license fees. This is obviously not as feature rich, but gets the
> job done. This is the second proxy I deployed, the first being for only 6
> users with the same hardware specs. I was a little nervous to see what
> effect 170 users would have but it has worked great.
> Just FYI.
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