-----Original Message----- From: donovan jeffrey j [mailto:donovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 7:37 AM To: Amos Jeffries Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: UDP errors after upgrade to 3.1.1 <snip> >no pid file in the 3.1.1 build. >I check my other copies and they all made the PID file in /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid >nothing is in my 3.1.1 >cat: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/squid.pid: No such file or directory The machines I have installed 3.1.1 on want to place the pid file in /usr/local/squid/var/run/squid.pid Unfortunately the install doesn't appear to build that directory, simply do a mkdir /usr/local/squid/var/run (make sure its owned by your squid user). Then either kill and restart squid, or manually create a squid.pid file with the process id in it. Alternatively you could use the pid_filename directive to point it to another location.