That's the text representation of ANSI-escaped colored text. In RedHat-derived distros (e.g. Fedora Core & RHEL) when a service is started they display the status of the service initialization. It looks like this # service squid start Starting squid: . [ OK ] That "OK" is in colored text. Back in Fedora Core 2 I used to see the log entries you show below. They seem to have fixed that in FC4, logging the status but not piping the displayed status into the file too. On Friday 16 September 2005 11:29 am, Daniel Navarro wrote: > Hi all fellows, > > My squid is not starting at bootime, and yes is > chkconfig for that al leves 3, 4 and 5. > > Manually starts fine. > > I see this lines on boot.log > > Sep 13 15:48:21 ngproxy squid: Starting squid: > Sep 13 15:48:22 ngproxy squid: . > Sep 13 15:48:22 ngproxy squid: [60G > Sep 13 15:48:22 ngproxy squid: > Sep 13 15:48:22 ngproxy rc: Starting squid: succeeded > > what is going on? and how can I solve? > > Regards in advance, from Venezuela, Daniel Navarro > > __________________________________________________ > Correo Yahoo! > Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! > Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ >