Re: [squid-users] Problem Starting Squid

Thanks Henk,

That was very clear, now I understand :-)

Thanks to Mihai too.

Kind regards
Adrian

----- Original Message -----
From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: adrian.wells <adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk>
Cc: Mihai BUHA <owlman@ss.pub.ro>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Problem Starting Squid

> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, adrian.wells wrote:
>
> > When I cd /usr/local/squid/sbin and then pwd it returns the same path,
so
> > does this not mean that the path is correct?
>
> No, it still only tells you the current working directory, not the search
> path for starting applications. (pwd = Print Working Directory).
>
> Applications in the current directory will only be started if either
>
> a) You start them with ./filename (recommended)
>
> b) You have . in your search path (not recommended due to security
> implications)
>
> > It was not a problem before, but I have upgraded Linux SuSE 7.2 to 9.0
> > maybe it's down to a change in the version?
>
> All UN*X:es work the same way. No point in changing only because of this.
>
> But it is possible the security of your previous installation had been
> relaxed to have . in the default search path.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 03:33:13 MST