Re: squid command doesn't do anything

[leo <leoslists at letterboxes dot org>]

> 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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