Time for action – finding out the Squid version
Just in case we want to check which version of Squid we are using or the options we used with the configure command before compiling, we can use the option -v on the command line. Let's run Squid with this option:
squid -v
If we try to run the preceding command in the terminal, it will produce an output similar to the following:
Squid Cache: Version 3.1.10 configure options: '--config-cache' '--prefix=/opt/squid/' '--enable-storeio=ufs,aufs' '--enable-removal-policies=lru,heap' '--enable-icmp' '--enable-useragent-log' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-cache-digests' '--with-large-files' --enable-ltdl-convenience
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