Re: CygWin Windows Service support released

Also (I think it was) Duane didn't want new actions added to the
cachemgr, so reconfiguring from there might not get into HEAD. Of course
you can get most things into HEAD and keep the patches for your setup
out of HEAD.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Serassio Guido" <gserassio@asp.it>
To: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 3:55 AM
Subject: 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 - 16:33:35 MDT