CygWin Windows Service support released

Hi,

Today I committed the new source supporting Windows NT services to the
CygWin branch.

The core code is derived from the 2.3 Stable 4 native NT port, and seem to
be very stable.

To enable the service mode, use the --enable-win32-service configure option

After compiling, make install as usual, but before run it, you must make
the following steps:

1) Run a "squid -i" command.

2) Change the squid.conf files to reflect physical Windows paths instead
CygWin logical paths because the service runs as System Account and not in
a full CygWin environment, for the same reason, the cygwin1.dll file must
be in your SYSTEM path.
For example:

cache_access_log /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log

if your CygWin root is d:\cygwin, must be changed to

cache_access_log d:/cygwin/usr/local/squid/logs/access.log

3) Run a "squid -f config-file" command to set in Windows Registry the
location of config-file
For example:

squid -f d:/cygwin/usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf

4) Run a "squid -z" command as usual if you need to create the cache
directories.

5) Start the SquidNT Services from Services Control Panel Applet.

Note:

Is possibile to compile Squid with --prefix=PREFIX and
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX configure options pointing to Windows physical paths,
so you don't need step 2 & 3, but in this manner you need to install Squid
manually.

A last comment on Squid command line switches:

I added two new Squid command line option:

-i : Install the SquidNT Service with automatic startup
-r: Remove the SquidNT Service

Working switches at the moment:

All -k family, -f (but sets config-files in Windows Registry), -z, -v, -h

-N is removed, because non-sense

The remaining command line switches at the moment don't work.

Guido

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Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 16:06:05 MDT