Oops Sorry!! I did not realise it. Pls help below is the snippet from the log 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Starting Squid Cache version 2.7.STABLE7 for i686-pc-winnt... 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Running on Windows Server 2008 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Process ID 1972 2009/12/01 16:23:52| With 2048 file descriptors available 2009/12/01 16:23:52| With 512 CRT stdio descriptors available 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Windows sockets initialized 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Using select for the IO loop 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Performing DNS Tests... 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2009/12/01 16:23:52| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 57426, FD 4 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Adding nameserver 125.22.47.125 from Registry 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Adding nameserver 202.56.230.6 from Registry 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Adding domain ******** from Registry 2009/12/01 16:23:52| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Referer logging is disabled. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| logfileOpen: opening log c:/squid/var/logs/access.log 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 7 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Swap maxSize 102400 + 8192 KB, estimated 8507 objects 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Target number of buckets: 425 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Using 8192 Store buckets 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Max Swap size: 102400 KB 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2009/12/01 16:23:52| logfileOpen: opening log c:/squid/var/logs/store.log 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Rebuilding storage in c:/squid/var/cache (CLEAN) 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Using Least Load store dir selection 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Set Current Directory to c:/squid/var/cache 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Loaded Icons. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 13. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 14. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Accepting HTCP messages on port 4827, FD 15. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 16. 2009/12/01 16:23:52| Ready to serve requests. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| Done reading c:/squid/var/cache swaplog (0 entries) 2009/12/01 16:23:53| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Entries scanned 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Invalid entries. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 With invalid flags. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Objects loaded. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Objects expired. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Objects cancelled. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2009/12/01 16:23:53| Took 1.0 seconds ( 0.0 objects/sec). 2009/12/01 16:23:53| Beginning Validation Procedure 2009/12/01 16:23:53| Completed Validation Procedure 2009/12/01 16:23:53| Validated 0 Entries 2009/12/01 16:23:53| store_swap_size = 0k 2009/12/01 16:23:54| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Preparing for shutdown after 0 requests 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Waiting 0 seconds for active connections to finish 2009/12/01 16:23:57| FD 13 Closing HTTP connection 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Shutting down... 2009/12/01 16:23:57| FD 14 Closing ICP connection 2009/12/01 16:23:57| FD 15 Closing HTCP socket 2009/12/01 16:23:57| FD 16 Closing SNMP socket 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Closing unlinkd pipe on FD 7 2009/12/01 16:23:57| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Finished. Wrote 0 entries. 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Took 0.0 seconds ( 0.0 entries/sec). CPU Usage: 0.203 seconds = 0.031 user + 0.172 sys Maximum Resident Size: 7208 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 1845 2009/12/01 16:23:57| logfileClose: closing log c:/squid/var/logs/store.log 2009/12/01 16:23:57| logfileClose: closing log c:/squid/var/logs/access.log 2009/12/01 16:23:57| Squid Cache (Version 2.7.STABLE7): Exiting normally. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Guido Serassio <guido.serassio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Very hard to help someone, if the reply e-mails are sent only to Kinkie .... > > Regards > > Guido > > > Guido Serassio > Acme Consulting S.r.l. > Microsoft Gold Certified Partner > Via Lucia Savarino, 1 10098 - Rivoli (TO) - ITALY > Tel. : +39.011.9530135 Fax. : +39.011.9781115 > Email: guido.serassio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it > > >> -----Messaggio originale----- >> Da: Kinkie [mailto:gkinkie@xxxxxxxxx] >> Inviato: lunedì 7 dicembre 2009 20.24 >> A: Preetham N.; Squid Users >> Oggetto: Re: Squid Service on windows Starts and stops >> automatically >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Preetham N. <preetham.n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > hi, >> > below is the snippet from the log >> >> Strange.. >> it seems to start and then voluntarily stop, no mention of errors. >> Maybe Guido can help you more than I can.. >> >> -- >> /kinkie > -- Regards, Preetham N.