Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:55:50PM -0600, Kevin Hilton wrote: >Someone has emailed me telling me their is no specific documentation >relating to squid and cygwin -- other than the generic user's guide. There is a Cygwin Users Guide. It is intended to tell you how to run Cygwin. The Cygwin Users

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Kevin Hilton
Someone has emailed me telling me their is no specific documentation relating to squid and cygwin -- other than the generic user's guide. My original intention was not to start a mailing list war among users, only discover how to compile, setup, and use the a cygwin squid server. Thanks for any he

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:28:41AM -0800, Jeff wrote: >Please do not think I am singling you out, Dave. IMO it is because >these concepts are missing that the conversation is proceeding as it >is. Though my comments are severely off topic to the list, I'm hoping >that they may help, and influence t

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Jeff
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:45:01 +, "Dave Korn" wrote: >On 29 December 2007 15:22, Jeff wrote: > >> Hm... IMO, the anger is wholly justified, considering the >> provocation: a dismissive response in the first instance, and a >> sarcastic one in the second. > > Two wrongs don't make a right,

Re: 'makewhatis' coughs on 'wput.1.gz' (on Vista)

2007-12-29 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Dave Korn wrote: On 28 December 2007 05:03, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: 'makewhatis ('whereis' and 'apropos' database setup script) generates the following errors: $ makewhatis gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: inv

ACL as umask

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Hoffman
Is there a way to set a file-creation ACL instead of a simple numeric umask? I have searched somewhat and don't think this exists yet, but would like to double-check. Many thanks, Michael Hoffman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

RE: 'makewhatis' coughs on 'wput.1.gz' (on Vista)

2007-12-29 Thread Mr Webber
Checked it with winrar D:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\wput.1.gz: CRC failed in wput.1. The file is corrupt It's cooked! I tried to reinstall from Georgia Tech Mirror. It is cooked too. You could you ftp drive by a script, until this gets fixed. This is one of those cygwin commands I was comp

RE: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 December 2007 16:35, Dave Korn wrote: > On 29 December 2007 15:48, Kevin Hilton wrote: >> Im attempting to >> setup the squid version that comes with the cygwin distribution. Do I >> have to create a nobody account? > > If you want to run squid as 'nobody', you'd need to do that.

RE: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 December 2007 15:22, Jeff wrote: > Hm... IMO, the anger is wholly justified, considering the > provocation: a dismissive response in the first instance, and a > sarcastic one in the second. Two wrongs don't make a right, and adding to a problem doesn't make it any better. > And thr

RE: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 December 2007 15:48, Kevin Hilton wrote: > Lets see to all you geniuses out there, >> Being an ass about it will not resolve the situation, although it >> might make you >> feel better. > > Thanks for the foul language -- you are a man among men! Oh, grow up. *You* opened with host

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Jeff
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:08:26 +, "Dave Korn" wrote: >On 26 December 2007 15:49, Kevin Hilton wrote: > >> The official squid documentation keeps talking of a Cygwin users >> guide, however I cant find any link to this guide. He also wrote: >Are there any good guides to getting squid up and

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Kevin Hilton
Lets see to all you geniuses out there, what part of my original letter did I not clearly express myself: Are there any good guides to getting squid up and running on cygwin. The official squid documentation keeps talking of a Cygwin users guide, however I cant find any link to this guide. Im att

RE: 'makewhatis' coughs on 'wput.1.gz' (on Vista)

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 December 2007 15:16, Dave Korn wrote: > It's been d2u'd Or perhaps FTP'd in the wrong asc/bin mode. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

RE: 'makewhatis' coughs on 'wput.1.gz' (on Vista)

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 28 December 2007 05:03, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > 'makewhatis ('whereis' and 'apropos' database setup script) generates > the following errors: > > $ makewhatis > > gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error > > gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid co

RE: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Mr Webber
One should not blame the world for one's inability to express one's self. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:08 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Squid use and configuration on cygwin On 26

RE: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 December 2007 15:49, Kevin Hilton wrote: > The official squid documentation keeps talking of a Cygwin users > guide, however I cant find any link to this guide. On 29 December 2007 02:38, Kevin Hilton wrote: > So any of you geniuses that pointed me to the Cygwin users guide want > to tel