Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Excellent! Thanks for the tips! Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread RW
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:14:38 -0700 Ed Flecko wrote: > Thanks RW! > > How do I make the changes you've suggested, i.e., like changing from > the small UFS cache, etc.; that can all be done by altering the > squid.conf file? Yes, take a look at the cache_dir lines in in the squid.conf file in the

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread RW
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:38:03 -0700 Ed Flecko wrote: > Thank you Jerry. > > The only reason I'm not using the squid port is because I found a > website > ( > http://teklimbu.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/enterprise-freebsd-squid-proxy-server/ > ) > that has detailed instructions on installing squid f

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: > Thank you Jerry. > > The only reason I'm not using the squid port is because I found a > website ( > http://teklimbu.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/enterprise-freebsd-squid-proxy-server/ > ) that has detailed instructions on installing squid for an En

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Hi folks, >> I'm looking in some documentation for Squid, which I'm installing on a >> FBSD 8.1 server, and it says I need to create a squid user and a squid >> group because I'm building/inst

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm looking in some documentation for Squid, which I'm installing on a > FBSD 8.1 server, and it says I need to create a squid user and a squid > group because I'm building/installing from source. > > I see to create the squid user, I

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you Jerry. The only reason I'm not using the squid port is because I found a website ( http://teklimbu.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/enterprise-freebsd-squid-proxy-server/ ) that has detailed instructions on installing squid for an Enterprise environment claiming the performance is very good. S

Re: Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2010-09-01 09:02:45 UTC-0700, Ed Flecko (edfle...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm looking in some documentation for Squid, which I'm installing on a > FBSD 8.1 server, and it says I need to create a squid user and a squid > group because I'm building/installing from source. All of this is done aut

Should a "squid" user have a shell?

2010-09-01 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm looking in some documentation for Squid, which I'm installing on a FBSD 8.1 server, and it says I need to create a squid user and a squid group because I'm building/installing from source. I see to create the squid user, I user the (of course) "adduser" command (there isn't a default