Thank you Henrik, that was exactly the cause! Not surprisingly, turning off SELinux also allowed Squid to create the cache directories in a non-default location. I'll perhaps worry about figuring out SELinux policies and what caused the problem later. Now I'll just work on setting up the rest of this. Thanks again. Geoff ______________________________ Geoff Varney Network Support Specialist Educational Service District 112 Ridgefield School District 360-619-1405 geoff.varney@xxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:57 PM To: Geoff Varney Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid won't execute from command line On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Geoff Varney wrote: > When I type "/usr/sbin/squid" with anything, -z, -v, etc I get NOTHING, just > back to the command prompt. It does try to start if I type "service squid > start", but it fails, of course. Another user reported similar problems recently, and it boiled down to a SELinux policy issue. (strict policy not liking Squid if you configure it to go outside the configured policy) Regards Henrik --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]