hi there, http://www.yourhowto.org/content/view/22/9/ i've followed the above how-to step by step and i just can't get two instances fo squid running on the same machine. correct my if i'm wrong, but isn't it as easy as changing two lines in the squid.conf squid.conf http_port 3128 pid_filename /var/run/squid.pid squid-cache.conf http_port 3030 pid_filename /var/run/squid-cache.pid and then starting them by /usr/sbin/squid -f /etc/squid/squid-cache.conf /usr/sbin/squid-cache -f /etc/squid/squid.conf ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? it's been driving me batty all day.