I've installed latest squid (3.2.0.3) recently from source. I configured it with --with-icmp to enable incoming icmp request. After compiling and installing it, it's time to run it. From the log I noticed that the pinger program produced an error like this:
IcmpSquid.cc(155) Recv: recv: (111) Connection refused
and filtering the log of the word pinger (using grep) :
pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ...
2010/12/18 10:57:16| pinger: Unable to start ICMP pinger.
2010/12/18 10:57:16| pinger: Unable to start ICMPv6 pinger.
2010/12/18 10:57:16| FATAL: pinger: Unable to open any ICMP sockets.
From the errors above, I knew that they were related to permission problem (connection refused, unable to open socket). It solved when I setuid the pinger program to enable it to open the required socket :
chmod 4755 pinger (run this as root of course)
This pinger program is usually located in the bin directory of squid path e.g /usr/local/squid/bin (this is the default if you compile from source). Please consult your distro if you install it using package manager.
After restarting squid, I could see in the log as below:
pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ...
2010/12/18 16:58:48| pinger: ICMP socket opened.
2010/12/18 16:58:48| pinger: ICMPv6 socket opened
That I think solved the problem. Have fun.
2 comments:
You mean chmod instead chown
But thanks for the idea and fix :)
Yes. Corrected. Thanks for the heads-up. :)
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