Hello, thanks for the replies, I am using squidguard as a redirector, and when I squidguard from the command line it died with 'filesize exceeded', turned out squidguard's log had grown to 2.1GB and this was killing squid. Thanks, Gavin On 8/30/07, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been running squid-2.6stable6 quite happily for some time on a > > 32bit RHEL5 server. Today squid crashed and refused to come back up, > > even after a reboot, with the error "FATAL: the url_rewriter helpers > > are crashing too rapidly, need help!" > > > <snip> > > > > Where can I start trying to figure this one out? > > > > Something is causing your helper scripts to exit(). > > If the helpers are scripts their interpreter may now be having problems > parsing or running them. > Check the helper code, test them manually and see what they are trying to do. > > Amos > >