SQUIDTAILD(8)

✨ SQUIDTAILD(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the System Manager's Manual section for squidtaild, and no, you're not dreaming — this is genuinely a whole page about a tiny lil squid log watcher 🦑 and it's giving main character energy. sit down, grab a 🍓, let's go.

🌸 NAME 🌸

squidtaild — Squid log monitoring program 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

squidtaild

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just her 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page documents briefly the squidtaild command — literally just the basics, we're not writing a whole novel here 💅

so what does she do? squidtaild is a program that uses the information contained in /etc/squidtaild/squidtaild.conf to create html pages. and those html pages display the violations that people have made against one or more of the filters you have applied to the squid proxy logging system 🔥

basically: people do stuff on the proxy, filters catch the stuff, squidtaild snitches in html. iconic. periodt.

💖 CONFIGURATION 💖

Configuration can be done in two ways, and yes you need to know both:

• by editing /etc/squidtaild/squidtaild.conf 📝
• and by adding filters to /etc/squidtaild/filters/ 🗂️

now, filters — what are they? Filters are nothing more than wildcards that are monitored in the URL's visited by the people using the proxy server 👀✨

so like. wildcards. in URLs. getting watched. that's the whole thing. lowkey obsessed.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manual page was written by Radu Spineanu radu@timisoara.roedu.net for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 💜 so if you're on Debian, he did this for you specifically, but honestly bestie you can use it too, he said so himself.

💀 reminder: this was a SQUIDTAILD(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, so it lives in section 8 with the rest of the system administration besties, and it came to you via the Debian GNU/Linux system. tysm for reading, mwah 💅💖✨