[squid-users] ssl bump

[Alex Rousskov]

On 2026-07-16 01:57, Vacheslav wrote:

> 2026/07/16 08:34:24 kid1| WARNING: sslcrtd_program #Hlpr1 exited

We need to figure out why your security_file_certgen helpers are 
exiting. IIRC, those helpers have not been upgraded to report their 
fatal failures to cache.log. There are a few tricks you can use to see 
what the problem is, but I would probably start with these three:

1. Run security_file_certgen with sslcrtd_program parameters from the 
command line, as Squid user. If you are lucky, it will complain about 
something before it starts waiting for the helper request.

2. Redirect security_file_certgen stderr (but not stdout!) output into a 
dedicated log file. It may be possible to do that right on the 
sslcrtd_program line, without wrapping the helper into another script.

3. Enable full debugging, reproduce the problem with a single 
transaction, and send a link to the corresponding compressed cache.log 
file for analysis as detailed at 
https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/BugReporting#debugging-a-single-transaction


Cheers,

Alex.