Hi, I want to run squid with several workers and when I start squid without -N option, then I see all the workers and it works as expected. But I use the daemontools from Danial Bernstein to start and monitor the proccesses. This tool requires, that the proccesses don't go in background. I think it must be possible to start the master proccess in foreground (-N option) and this master manages the workers in background. Squid does this allready with the auth and session helpers for years, so why does the -N option prevent squid from starting more workers ? -- Regards Dieter -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the >From field.