Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/