************************************************* This message has been scanned by IMSS NIT-Silchar After I have deleted the most of the files from the /var/spool/squid I have the following status, as shown below: [root@stud-pxy squid]# ls -l total 746892 -rw------- 1 squid squid 298901504 2008-02-09 02:24 core.19953 -rw------- 1 squid squid 192131072 2008-09-09 00:40 core.2053 -rw------- 1 squid squid 280207360 2008-08-30 00:51 core.2054 [root@stud-pxy squid]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/PrimaryVol-root 19838052 6365712 12448340 34% / /dev/mapper/PrimaryVol-var 14855176 12164532 1923876 87% /var /dev/mapper/PrimaryVol-home 34756272 29026972 3935252 89% /home /dev/mapper/PrimaryVol-tmp 4062912 139588 3713612 4% /tmp /dev/sda1 101086 34842 61025 37% /boot tmpfs 253424 0 253424 0% /dev/shm [root@stud-pxy squid]# The output of du -sh /var/cache [root@stud-pxy squid]# du -sh /var/cache/* 16K /var/cache/alchemist 19M /var/cache/ccache 20K /var/cache/coolkey 24K /var/cache/cups 8.0K /var/cache/dap-server 16K /var/cache/dirmngr 744K /var/cache/fontconfig 8.0K /var/cache/foomatic 684K /var/cache/hald 16K /var/cache/jetty 80K /var/cache/ldconfig 8.0K /var/cache/logwatch 2.0M /var/cache/man 8.0K /var/cache/mason 8.0K /var/cache/mod_proxy 8.0K /var/cache/mod_ssl 24K /var/cache/tomcat5 8.0K /var/cache/vdr 8.0K /var/cache/vdradmin 99M /var/cache/yum [root@stud-pxy squid]# Give some pointers such as to create more free space to let the squid run properly. Many times the squid was dead, as there was no enough space in /var partition left. Only after creating more space that the squid was made to restart. Thanks jmaan