ok, ran the command and this is what i got
squid -z
2008/04/19 11:35:06| Creating Swap Directories
then i send this comand:
[root@ns1 ~]# squid -N -d 1 -D
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE16 for i386-redhat-linux-gnu...
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Process ID 7792
2008/04/19 11:35:22| With 1024 file descriptors available
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Using epoll for the IO loop
2008/04/19 11:35:22| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 42464, FD 5
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Adding domain linksys from /etc/resolv.conf
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Adding nameserver 192.168.1.1 from /etc/resolv.conf
2008/04/19 11:35:22| User-Agent logging is disabled.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Referer logging is disabled.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Target number of buckets: 393
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Using 8192 Store buckets
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (DIRTY)
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Using Least Load store dir selection
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Loaded Icons.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 11.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 12.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| WCCP Disabled.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Ready to serve requests.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Done scanning /var/spool/squid (0 entries)
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Entries scanned
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Invalid entries.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 With invalid flags.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Objects loaded.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Objects expired.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Objects cancelled.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Duplicate URLs purged.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided.
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Took 0.4 seconds ( 0.0 objects/sec).
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Beginning Validation Procedure
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Completed Validation Procedure
2008/04/19 11:35:22| Validated 0 Entries
2008/04/19 11:35:22| store_swap_size = 0k
2008/04/19 11:35:23| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects
but it looked like it hanged i didnt get back tot he shell prompt i had to hit return so does that mean that its working now?