Re: [squid-users] Problems with Squid under Cygwin

Hi,

At 17.53 30/03/2004, thors_hammer123 wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am having some problems getting Squid running under
>my Windows box. I have tried both the Cygwin (which I
>would prefer) and the native version with the same
>result.
>Under Cygwin:
>Squid compiles and installs fine. When I tried to run
>it, I got an error saying that user 'nobody' did not
>exist (I do not understand why it was running under
>this user given that I fired it from my account.) So I
>added a user 'nobody' to /etc/passwd. Then it
>complained that group 'nogroup' did not exist. So I
>added 'nogroup' to /etc/groups. Now squid starts up
>and immediately terminates abnormally...without
>displaying a single line of text or error code, so I
>am stumped.
>Using the native NT version:
>Same thing as last problem. Cygwin aborts abnormally
>without a single line of text displayed.
>
>I am not sure what could be the problem. Any ideas?

Typical problems on Windows are the initial DNS test or the visible_hostname.

See Squid FAQs and squid.conf for details.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Tue Mar 30 2004 - 11:25:29 MST