Dear all i've run squid on centos4.2 for several month. but by accident i remove squid.pid. i've read in squid FAQ for this issue, and run all the suggestion, but it didn't work [root@its-lnx02 ~]# ps ax | grep squid You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@its-lnx02 ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure squid: ERROR: No running copy [root@its-lnx02 ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@its-lnx02 ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure squid: ERROR: No running copy [root@its-lnx02 ~]# ps ax | grep squid 7039 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid 7099 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep squid [root@its-lnx02 ~]# echo 7039 > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid [root@its-lnx02 ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 1 to process 7039: (3) No such process [root@its-lnx02 ~]# echo 7099 > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@its-lnx02 ~]# /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 1 to process 7099: (3) No such process [root@its-lnx02 ~]# locate squid.pid warning: locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@its-lnx02 ~]# can anyone give me the suggestion ? i'll be apreciate it best regards