Squidview + Squid 3

I post this as a reminder, the solution to this problem found on this post: http://adminnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/05/instalar-squidview-en-debian.html

So what is all this about? When I first installed Squid v3 on a system and tried to run Squidview (of course everyone knows tail –f /var/log/squid3/access.log) but got this error: “The squid log file cannot be read.”

It was clear enough that it looks for the log file in a place that doesn’t exist so I guessed that’s the location of the old 2.x Squid, /var/log/squid/access.log . But to my surprise squidview doesn’t have any config file, the location is hardcoded.

So the solution is to create a softlink like this:

ln -s /var/log/squid3/ /var/log/squid

Now squidview starts as it should. That simple!