Re: --enable-icmp diagnostics

Matija Grabnar wrote:
>
> This is not a bug, per-se, but I do contend that is
> clumsily done:
> if you configure squid-2.2Stable5 (and, presumably,
> other verisions) with --enable-icmp, but do NOT uncomment
> the pinger_program line in squid.conf, you will start getting
> Connection refused messages in cache.log, without any other
> indication what could be wrong.

You should not need to. If pinger_program is not defined in squid.conf,
then Squid uses the built in default path (<prefix>/bin/pinger)

If I remember correctly the connection refused messages may be seen if
the pinger program isn't installed suid root.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker