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Subject:  Re: starting squid getgrnam failed , getpwnam failed , , `nobody` , `nogroup`. Windows xp
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:42:38 +0000 (UTC)
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> > I have had these errors when trying to run squid. in win xp.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > $ squid
> > 
> > 
> > FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'nobody'
> > 
> > I read this [1] which seems to say to me I can solve this by
> > creating a nobody account.
> > So I saw this [2] about how to do that in cygwin.
> > 
> > and I did created the nobody user
> > net user nobody /add
> > and probably added him to users.
> > net localgroup users nobody /add
> > 
> > or I created the user in windows and it automatically went into the
> > users group.
> > 
> > and  seeing that $less /etc/passwd   and $less /etc/group   seem
> > less up to date,  than     mkgroup -l -u  and mkpasswd -l   , I did
> > mkgroup -l >/etc/group
> > mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
> > I saw these commands mentioned once.
> > 
> > And then when trying to run squid, I got the similar error
> > FATAL: getgrnam failed to find groupid for effective group 'nogroup'
> > 
> > That is more-or-less what happened.  I am not sure what to do next
> > to get it working.  I don`t really know what I am doing!
> 
> I think you're doing alright.  Why not try creating the 'nogroup'
> group and see if that moves the peg forward a bit?

it has [your suggestion dealt with that error], thank you. 





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