> And does this affect anything, - Squid will kind of do a check on the store dir. Purge duplicate objects e.d. ,and other maintenance stuff which would not be needed if the SQUID Cache was shutdown properly > and how can I shutdown squid normaly? > % squid -k shutdown Check further command line options in : http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-3.html#ss3.8 M.