I have windows xp sp3 I did squid -i then it said start it in the applet. So I went to services.msc and tried to start it It said could not start the squid service error 1067 I did squid -X it said looked up FATAL in squid -X, said CACHE directory not created FATAL: cache_dir c:/squid/var/cache: (2) No such file or directory Squid Cache (Version 2.7.STABLE8): Terminated abnormally. So I created c:\squid\var\cache (The instructions on the windows squid site had said check that all directories mentioned in squid.conf exist..if not create them. I noticed one cache one didn't exist. So anyhow, I created it. Then I tried to start it, it took ages gave this error and just says "starting" not started. error 1053 The service did not respond to the start or control request in a a timely fashion so, I did squis -X and at the end it said 2012/04/12 21:14:47| aclParseAclList: looking for ACL name 'all' 2012/04/12 21:14:47| parse_line: dns_testnames netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com 2012/04/12 21:14:47| getMyHostname: 'cfw5' resolved into 'cfw5' 2012/04/12 21:14:47| Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname' 2012/04/12 21:14:47| cachemgrRegister: registered config 2012/04/12 21:14:47| fd_open FD 0 stdin 2012/04/12 21:14:47| fd_open FD 1 stdout 2012/04/12 21:14:47| fd_open FD 2 stderr 2012/04/12 21:14:47| leave_suid: PID 4628 called abnormal program termination Then I tried saying TAG: visible_hostname blobby (my hostname is blobby) It still didn't work. Squid -X said 2012/04/12 21:21:26| aclParseAclList: looking for ACL name 'all' 2012/04/12 21:21:26| parse_line: dns_testnames netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com 2012/04/12 21:21:26| cachemgrRegister: registered config 2012/04/12 21:21:26| fd_open FD 0 stdin 2012/04/12 21:21:26| fd_open FD 1 stdout 2012/04/12 21:21:26| fd_open FD 2 stderr 2012/04/12 21:21:26| leave_suid: PID 3504 called abnormal program termination
