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Re: squid command doesn't do anything
- From: leo <leoslists at letterboxes dot org>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:31:17 +1100
- Subject: Re: squid command doesn't do anything
> On 01/31/2013 05:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 1/31/2013 8:29 AM, leo wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> I have confirmed that all these dlls already existed on my system. Still
> squid does do anything.
>
>
> OK, I installed squid and noticed that invoking /usr/sbin/squid from the
> command line doesn't seem to do anything for me either. It exits with a
> code of 1. But I don't know anything, really, about squid's operation.
> I certainly didn't make any changes to squid.conf and a quick look at the
> squid man page says that configuration is necessary for it to work. Have
> you consulted the squid home page to get info on how to configure squid?
>
>
>
> I had a look and no attempt is made to read the specified config file:
>
> $ strace -f /usr/sbin/squid.exe -N -f xxyx 2>&1 | grep xxyx
> 137 70537 [main] squid 16040 build_argv: argv[3] = 'xxyx'
>
>
> Normally, squid will print a message saying that xxyx cannot be opened.
> Evidently, it crashes before it gets to that point.
>
>
Thanks for this. So I might try the native squid version instead. I'll keep you posted, whether this works (even though that is off-topic ;-) ).
BTW, I haven't set up the config file yet, but squid -v should work without a config file!
Regards, Leo
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