Not sure it is the proper thing do to but in the SSH windows, I went to :
/usr/local/etc/squid/errors
then issued "cp -Rp templates/ en/
It created the "/usr/local/etc/squid/errors/en" directory and copied all the files into it.
I restarted Squid.
The Real Time Squid Cache Table now shows:
Date-Time Message
28.06.2023 17:00:49 pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ...
28.06.2023 17:00:49 Service Name: squid
28.06.2023 17:00:49 Starting Squid Cache version 5.8 for amd64-portbld-freebsd14.0...
28.06.2023 16:59:31 Creating missing swap directories
31.12.1969 19:00:00
31.12.1969 19:00:00
31.12.1969 19:00:00
28.06.2023 16:59:25 Shutdown: Basic authentication.
28.06.2023 16:59:25 Shutdown: Digest authentication.
28.06.2023 16:59:25 Shutdown: Negotiate authentication.
28.06.2023 16:59:25 Shutdown: NTLM authentication.
No errors such as what I was seeing before like this:
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Unable to load default error language files. Reset to backups.
28.06.2023 15:05:10 ERROR: loading file 9;/usr/local/etc/squid/errors/en/ERR_NO_RELAY';: (2) No such file or directory
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Unable to load default error language files. Reset to backups.
28.06.2023 15:05:10 ERROR: loading file 9;/usr/local/etc/squid/errors/en/ERR_FORWARDING_DENIED': (2) No such file or directory
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Unable to load default error language files. Reset to backups.
28.06.2023 15:05:10 ERROR: loading file 9;/usr/local/etc/squid/errors/en/ERR_CACHE_MGR_ACCESS_DENIED': (2) No such file or directory
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Unable to load default error language files. Reset to backups.
28.06.2023 15:05:10 ERROR: loading file 9;/usr/local/etc/squid/errors/en/ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED': (2) No such file or directory
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Unable to load default error language files. Reset to backups.
28.06.2023 15:05:10 ERROR: loading file 9;/usr/local/etc/squid/errors/en/ERR_ACCESS_DENIED': (2) No such file or directory
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Service Name: squid
28.06.2023 15:05:10 Starting Squid Cache version 5.8 for amd64-portbld-freebsd14.0...
31.12.1969 19:00:00
31.12.1969 19:00:00
31.12.1969 19:00:00
28.06.2023 15:04:30 Shutdown: Basic authentication.
28.06.2023 15:04:30 Shutdown: Digest authentication.
28.06.2023 15:04:30 Shutdown: Negotiate authentication.
Still hoping someone has thoughts about why they are missing to begin with.
~Eric