Dear I have compiled squid 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.01 LTS with this configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--exec_prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--localstatedir=/var/spool/squid' '--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--with-logdir=/var/log/squid' '--with-default-user=proxy' --enable-ltdl-convenience Created cache dir with proxy owner and put this in config: cache_dir rock /cache 3000 max-size=31000 max-swap-rate=250 swap-timeout=350 Run squid -z, received output: 2012/09/26 15:33:28 kid2| Creating Swap Directories 2012/09/26 15:33:28 kid3| Creating Swap Directories Run squid, received error: 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| Using Least Load store dir selection 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid/cache/squid 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| Loaded Icons. 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| HTCP Disabled. 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| Sending SNMP messages from [::]:3401 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| Squid plugin modules loaded: 0 2012/09/26 15:35:23 kid1| commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 21 to [::]: (13) Permission denied 2012/09/26 15:35:35 kid1| DiskIO/IpcIo/IpcIoFile.cc(138) openCompleted: error: timeout 2012/09/26 15:35:35 kid1| Closing HTTP port [::]:3128 2012/09/26 15:35:35 kid1| Closing HTTP port [::]:3128 FATAL: Rock cache_dir at /cache/rock failed to open db file: (2) No such file or directory Squid Cache (Version 3.2.1): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.060 seconds = 0.036 user + 0.024 sys Maximum Resident Size: 47216 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 4748 KB Ordinary blocks: 4715 KB 9 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 1 blks Holding blocks: 8592 KB 4 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 32 KB Total in use: 13307 KB 280% Total free: 32 KB 1% File /cache/rock exists with correct permisions: ls -l /cache -rw------- 1 proxy proxy 3145728000 Sep 26 15:34 rock Squid run with user proxy: ps axu|grep squid root 27350 0.0 0.1 1184768 1896 ? Ss 15:34 0:00 squid proxy 27352 0.0 1.1 1183560 11436 ? S 15:34 0:00 (squid-coord-3) proxy 27353 1.4 1.1 1194112 11792 ? S 15:34 0:02 (squid-disk-2) Whats the problem with ROCK storage? George Tepnadze