Re: [squid-users] Are comments in external files allowed

On 18.01.2012 14:45, James Robertson wrote:
> Excuse the basic question but is adding comments to external files
> allowed in squid. For example...
>
> acl blockedsites dstdomain "/etc/squid3/blockedsites.txt"
>
>> cat /etc/squid3/blockedsites.txt
> # block facebook
> .facebook.com
>
> I googled and found examples where comments were used but nothing
> conclusive to say it's ok. I have tested and it appears to work fine
> but want to be sure.
>
> Thanks

May depend on your squid version. The 3.x series allow '#' comments in
the sub-files.

I don't think the original 2.5 parser did though, there are quite a few
directives in the main squid.conf which use that older parser and break
with trailing # comments.

Amos
Received on Wed Jan 18 2012 - 21:33:37 MST