I ran the command exactly with the same parameters and guess what ? Nothing. ¬¬ # sbin/squid -k shutdown # sbin/squid -DNYCd3 2007/08/22 18:35:06| Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE14 for i386-unknown-freebsd6.1... 2007/08/22 18:35:06| Process ID 60816 2007/08/22 18:35:06| With 11072 file descriptors available 2007/08/22 18:35:06| Using kqueue for the IO loop 2007/08/22 18:35:06| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 64008, FD 5 2007/08/22 18:35:06| Adding nameserver 200.181.67.10 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/08/22 18:35:06| Adding nameserver 200.181.67.71 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/08/22 18:35:06| Adding nameserver 200.198.216.105 from /etc/resolv.conf 2007/08/22 18:35:06| helperOpenServers: Starting 15 'ldap_auth.pl' processes 2007/08/22 18:35:06| helperOpenServers: Starting 30 'squid_ldap_group' processes 2007/08/22 18:35:07| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Referer logging is disabled. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 55 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Swap maxSize 5120000 KB, estimated 393846 objects 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Target number of buckets: 19692 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Using 32768 Store buckets 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Max Mem size: 3276800 KB 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Max Swap size: 5120000 KB 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Store logging disabled 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Rebuilding storage in /squid/var/cache (DIRTY) 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Using Least Load store dir selection 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Set Current Directory to /squid/var/cache 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Loaded Icons. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 127.0.0.1, port 3128, FD 56. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 57. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Accepting SNMP messages on port 161, FD 58. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| WCCP Disabled. 2007/08/22 18:35:07| Ready to serve requests. 2007/08/22 18:35:08| Store rebuilding is 0.9% complete 2007/08/22 18:35:14| Done reading /squid/var/cache swaplog (446862 entries) 2007/08/22 18:35:14| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 421988 Entries scanned 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 0 Invalid entries. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 0 With invalid flags. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 421876 Objects loaded. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 0 Objects expired. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 24417 Objects cancelled. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 68 Duplicate URLs purged. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 44 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| Took 7.2 seconds (58751.3 objects/sec). 2007/08/22 18:35:14| Beginning Validation Procedure 2007/08/22 18:35:14| 262144 Entries Validated so far. 2007/08/22 18:35:14| Completed Validation Procedure 2007/08/22 18:35:14| Validated 397459 Entries 2007/08/22 18:35:14| store_swap_size = 4965620k 2007/08/22 18:35:15| storeLateRelease: released 12 objects -- No stupid signatures here. http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/