If the transfer of the Web page doesn't occur within this time frame, the connection aborts. Indicates the email address that administrative alerts will be mailed to. If you start the process as root, it immediately switches to the values specified here. When things are up and running and moving along just fine, everyone is happy. But all things break, and we're here to fix them.
Log files are an important part of troubleshooting problems.
This log file contains the debug and error messages that Squid generates. If you start Squid with the -s option, a copy of certain messages will be sent to syslog. If you want to know which sites your end users are visiting, then take a look at this file. As previously mentioned, this can be in Squid native format or stored similar to a Web server's log file. The native file format is preferred for log analysis programs.