Hello, in my squid.conf (squid 3.0 + CentOS 5.2) i had enabled the debugging with the following values. debug_options ALL,1 33,2 28,9 and the following is about the acl declaration (just the default with very few changes) [root@igate ~]# egrep '^acl|^http_access' /etc/squid/squid.conf acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl test_users arp "/etc/squid/include-files/allowed_mac.squid" http_access allow test_users http_access allow localhost http_access deny all [root@igate ~]# Now when i reload the squid configuration by "service squid reload" it prints the following messages to the stderr; [root@igate ~]# service squid reload 2009/05/21 09:00:08.022| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.023| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.024| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.025| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.026| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.026| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.026| ACL::~ACL: ' 2009/05/21 09:00:08.026| ACL::~ACL: ' [root@igate ~]# I dont understand why it is printing like this. Ok, if is because of debug option, why this is NOT happening in squid 2.6 STABLE + CentOS 5.2 environment. I have another squid server running on this setup, with the same debug options turned on, but i didnt saw this messages while reloading... - -- --- Always try to find truth!!! ------------***---------------***--------------***------------ Its always nice to know that people with no understanding of technologies want to evaluate technical professionals based on their own lack of knowledge ------------***---------------***--------------***------------