Ok thanks for the help. I removed the factory installed version 2.5 and installed 3.0 after having problems with it and started from scratch. I am using dansguardian 2.8.06 as well now... I ran the ./squid -k shutdown command and that worked great. I then started it up just using the ./squid command from usr/local/squid/sbin directory where I have it installed. Now I seem to have a handle on it. Thanks so much for your help.. Russell ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter Albrecht <peter.albrecht@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Russell Martilla <faster340@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:59:51 AM Subject: Re: new squid issue... Hi Russell, > Now I still can't get squid to start with rcsquid... >From your previous post I remember you are using SLES 9, correct? On SUSE Linux, rcsquid is a symbolic link pointing to /etc/init.d/squid which is a script using parameters like start, stop, restart, reload, etc.. > I run the following; > > ps -eaf |grep squid with these results; > > root 4629 1 0 14:48 ? 00:00:00 ./squid > squid 4631 4629 0 14:48 ? 00:00:00 (squid) > squid 4632 4631 0 14:48 ? 00:00:00 (unlinkd) > root 4635 21985 0 14:48 pts/1 00:00:00 grep squid So Squid is already running. Are you using the Squid version coming with SLES 9 or a self-compiled Squid version? What _exactly_ are you doing when calling rcsquid? Or which other commands are you using? Try the following: * rcsquid stop -> Check with "ps aux | grep squid" if all Squid processes are stopped. * rcsquid start -> Check with "ps aux | grep squid" if Squid is started. If not, please check the log file /var/log/messages for any information. Regards, Peter -- Peter Albrecht, Novell Training Services ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping