I'm still having a strange issue with external ACLs. Sometimes I get this in my squid logs: ERR message= 2014/05/19 08:33:23 kid1| WARNING: securegateway_cfs #Hlpr0 exited 2014/05/19 08:33:23 kid1| Too few securegateway_cfs processes are running (need 1/5) 2014/05/19 08:33:23 kid1| Starting new helpers 2014/05/19 08:33:23 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 1/5 'squid_filter' processes 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| WARNING: securegateway_cfs #Hlpr0 exited 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| Too few securegateway_cfs processes are running (need 1/5) 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| Closing HTTP port [::]:3128 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| Closing HTTP port [::]:3129 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| Finished. Wrote 0 entries. 2014/05/19 08:33:26 kid1| Took 0.00 seconds ( 0.00 entries/sec). FATAL: The securegateway_cfs helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help! And this is my "fake" external ACL for testing purposes: int main(int argc, char** argv) { string line; while(getline(cin, line)) { if(line.length()>1) { CFS::print_response_err(""); } else exit(0); } } Why squid says redirector exited, and catches a FATAL? This code does not exits until squid closes stdin. Thanks