forgot to say: OS=ubuntuu9.10

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> I waant to get empathy to work but am having problems. In my research I
> found this possible solution:
>
> *     Problem*: Can add a Yahoo account but get a network error connecting
> (proxy server active)
>
> *     Solution*: As Yahoo uses port 5050, this port has to be able to get
> through. If your internet connection is via a
>
>       proxy server the proxy server has to allow a port 5050 tunnel.
>
>    - In squid proxy, by default the group of SSL_ports are allowed to be
>    tunnelled. A few ports are predefined. You can add port 5050 to these ports
>    by adding the line
>       - 'acl SSL_ports port 5050 # Empathy - Yahoo connection'
>    - Add the above line at the bottom of the other 'acl SSL_ports ...'
>    lines. Everything after the '#' is a comment only
>    - Restart the squid proxy
>    - One last thing, if you don't control your proxy server, for example
>    you use a company proxy server, you would have to ask the administrator to
>    enable port 5050 tunnelling.
>
>
> Unfortunately, the solution didn't tell me where squid proxy is. I tried
> 'locate squid' from / but that returned null. Anybody want to help me out?
> Maybe I used locate incorrectly.
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