The following is the script I use, hope it can do you some help. Simply create a file named 'squid.sh' (or any other name you like) in path '/usr/local/etc/rc.d', copy the script content in it, save, change mode to 755, that's all. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # if ! PREFIX=$(expr $0 : "\(/.*\)/etc/rc\.d/$(basename $0)\$"); then # echo "$0: Cannot determine the PREFIX" >&2 # exit 1 # fi case "$1" in start) if [ -x /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -a -f /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf ]; then (cd /usr/local/squid; /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid >/dev/null 2>&1 &) ; echo 'Starting cache service. ' fi ;; stop) /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k shutdown 2>&1 # Uncomment this if you'd like the system to (attempt to # wait for) squid to shut down cleanly #echo "Sleeping for 45 seconds to allow cache service to shutdown.." #sleep 45 ;; *) echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2 ;; esac exit 0