>But the startup should be 0 in all Squid-3.2+ like you say. Are you applying any patches to external_acl.cc or helper/ChildConfig.cc ? < No patches. Now I rebuilt squid on a 32-bit debian, with default ./configure opts. Same effect: 2016/10/24 09:54:09 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 5/5 'check_delay.sh' processes having this in squid.conf: external_acl_type check_delay ttl=0 cache=0 %SRC /etc/squid/check_delay.sh -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/external-acl-type-problem-tp4680203p4680247.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users