what distro?
did you install from source or use a package?

> Been bashing my head against the proverbial brick wall trying to get Squid
> (version 2.3 Stable1) starting automatically from the startup script.

did it come with a init script to use?

> I've read the FAQs and docos (though it is possible that I may have missed
> something) but from what I understand "/usr/local/squid/bin/squid" added into
> rc.local should work. It doesn't for some reason.

does it work from the command line? are there any errors in the logs?

> The other piece of information is that squid will only start under the "squid"
> user. I am thinking that it may be some user/permission problem but not sure
> exactly what.

what errors to you get in /var/log/messages when starting it as a
different user?

later
marty



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