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Subject:	Re: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:36:22 +1100
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At this point the documentation for squid is a) online (www.squid-cache.org) and b) the squid.conf file. The distrubution available
via setup.exe has squid.conf in /etc

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Abbey" <cabbey AT bresnanlink DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'


> Tomorrow, Guy Worthington wrote:
> > FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'
> [...snip...]
> > Can someone please help me identify myself?
>
> it's not you that getpwnam failed to find, it's "nobody" which by default
> isn't in /etc/passwd. On Linux anyway squid changes to user nobody the
> last I checked. Unfortunately squid for cygwin doesn't have any of the
> docs bundled with it yet, but I'll bet this will show up in it's install
> directions. ;)
>
> in the mean time you can create a line like this (I've not tested this):
>
> nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
>
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