On Wednesday 19 November 2003 6:20 am, Lawrence Tang wrote: > Hi, > > I had just finish install RH9.0 and try to activate the SQUID. When I > activate the service, it showing the following message. Please advice. > Thanks in advance. > > squid failed. The error was: init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... > /etc/init.d/squid: line 162: 2098 Aborted $SQUID -z -F -D 2>/dev/null > > Starting squid: /etc/init.d/squid: line 162: 2099 Aborted $SQUID > $SQUID_OPTS 2>/dev/null > > [FAILED] I recommend you ask this question on the Squid mailing list, not the Netfilter one - there are likely to be more people there who can answer it :) By the way, if you do post the question there, include any further details which get output in your syslog or squid.log files too. Antony. -- "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. It is NOT portable , and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(." - Excerpt from posting to comp.os.minix by Linus Torvalds, 25 Aug 1991 Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.