Re: [squid-users] Bungled squid.conf due to cache_dir

Hi,

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Paul Cocker wrote:
>> I'm setting up SquidNT 2.6STABLE14 using a fresh config on a Windows
>> 2003 server. I've located it in the folder D:\Program Files\squid,
>> mainly because there are several other programs installed on the server
>> and it keep the folder list clean, they're all within this directory.
>>
>> However, when I try to start the service I get the following:
>>
>> FATAL: Bungled squid.conf line 1072: cache_dir ufs "D:/Program
>> Files/squid/var/cache" 2000 16 256
>>
>> Now, I assume this is due to spaces in the directory path which I
>> thought the quotes would resolve.
>
> You probably assume correct.
>
>>
>> Can this be made to work in a configuration where there are spaces in
>> the directory names?
>>
>
> You could, with a lot of code. Squid uses strtok([whitespace]) to parse
> each line, that is (sadly) buried into every module that has a
> squid.conf item.
>
> So quotes don't generally mean a thing to squid, nor do [\ ]'s.
>
> I'm not to up on the parsing in windows, but it might be possible in
> your case to use the %...% win32 default path variables. It would be
> easier to add code for those at certain places than change the parser to
> cope with spaces.

You should be able to use the DOS format name - d:\progra~1\...

Never tried it but you may have success.

HTH,

                                Neil.

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