Re: Introduction

On Oct 21, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Kinkie wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Perry Smith <pedzsan_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hello Perry!
>
>> My interest is AIX. I recently sent a note to the general list and
>> was
>> prompted to at least CC to this list. I plan to use squid in a
>> pretty low
>> usage place to get around a firewall issue I have. But I also
>> maintain
>> http://aix-consulting.net which is a site where I put precompiled
>> executables of open source packages. I plan to put versions of
>> squid 2.7
>> and 3.0 on that site.
>
> Fantastic :)
> I think Amos already asked that, but are you willing to take part of
> our continuous integratoin platform? See the BuildFarm wiki page and
> http://build.squid-cache.org/

I would like to. I currently have a lot of obstacles. I currently
don't have an AIX machine that can be directly reached from the net.
They are all behind firewalls of one sort or another.

The best I could do right now would give a sign on to my server and
then you could telnet / whatever to the AIX machine.

I might be able to talk a friend into putting one of my AIX machines
on his net but I haven't mentioned it to him yet.

>
>> I will likely debug my current issues with the help of this list
>> and then
>> drop off but you are always welcome to contact me for AIX questions
>> (or
>> point people in my direction).
>
> Thanks! Any help is appreciated.

As an update for my progress: I got 2.7 compiled and working. It
exposed a bug in AIX which left a ./conftest program running after the
end of the configure script. It was the test that checks for large
unix domain datagram packets. It should have died. Its not a bad
test. But AIX does not comes out of the select when the parent dies.

I have not gotten back to the 3.0 mystery but I hope to. This project
is a side line off the side road of the side business. So it doesn't
get much time.

Take care,
Perry
Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )

Low cost SATA Disk Systems for IBMs p5, pSeries, and RS/6000 AIX systems
Received on Wed Oct 21 2009 - 15:10:45 MDT