I had the same problem with Squid and Redhat 9. I had to define visible_hostname "yourhostname" in squid.conf since my machine is on my private lan behind a cable modem, It does not like unqualified hostnames. I never had this prob with RH 8. That should fix the start up. Dan :-) -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of antonio Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:09 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Squid start-up When I start squid (for example by Webmin) I get the following message: > Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid start .. > >init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid: line 162: 2871 Abortito $SQUID -z -F -D 2>/dev/null >Avvio di squid: /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid: line 162: 2872 Abortito $SQUID $SQUID_OPTS 2>/dev/null >[FALLITO] > > where abortito means abort, Avvio di means start of , and Fallito means Failed. I installed only Squid RPM directly downloaded from ftp.redhat.com Tnx Antonio -- ________________________________ Mozilla 1.4a running on Linux Redhat 9 ________________________________ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list