It is related to starting squid automatically at boot. i have tried enough but did not succeded in doing that. I have compiled squid3 stable24 on Ubuntu 8.04LTS. What i figured out is that squid is not being allowed to run as root so my startup scripts failed evend doing su -u proxy /bla/bla/squid -D does not work. please somebody help..... regards, _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969