> That sounds like an OS problem. Possibly failure to
> finish writing
> the in-memory disk cache out to the actual disk, or some
> sort of
> filesystem corruption that the power failure triggered.
>
> Squid's operating software doesn't include anything which
> could remove
> its own binary.
>
> What OS was this running on?
I'm running squid on debian etch (I previously said lenny) with ext2 type partition. The server has been running for about a year with previous power outages in the past but, that never happened before.
