> If I run squidGuard on its own as root it seems to work. Is there any > way I can try to run it as user "squid" from the command line > to see if > I get any more information? Trying "su squid" obviously > didn't work (but > I had to try it anyway). Are you familiar with the sudo command? Whilst root you should be able to do something like: % sudo -u squid squidguard And that will execute the command as squid. Hope that helps, Ben