On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:09 +0200, Wayne Swart wrote: > My issue however is that squid fails to start at boot time with the following > (seems rather common) error: > > Feb 29 09:56:58 firewall (squid): The basicauthenticator helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help! > Feb 29 09:56:58 firewall squid[3047]: Squid Parent: child process 3124 exited due to signal 6 > Feb 29 09:56:58 firewall squid[3047]: Exiting due to repeated, frequent failures I would guess your startup sequence have Squid started before Samba. the winbind helpers depend on Samba being running when started. Regards Henrik