[squid-users] Pinger exiting

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Sun Sep 20 09:09:23 UTC 2015


On 19/09/2015 7:58 p.m., TarotApprentice wrote:
> Running 3.5.7 under Debian. In my cache.log I get pinger exiting every day around 06:25.
> 
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01 kid1| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01 kid1|   Finished.  Wrote 34846 entries.
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01 kid1|   Took 0.00 seconds (7102731.35 entries/sec).
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01 kid1| logfileRotate: stdio:/var/log/squid/access.log
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01 kid1| Rotate log file stdio:/var/log/squid/access.log
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01 kid1| Pinger socket opened on FD 14
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01| pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ...
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01| pinger: ICMP socket opened.
> 2015/09/18 06:25:01| pinger: ICMPv6 socket opened
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1| Closing Pinger socket on FD 14
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1|   Finished.  Wrote 36066 entries.
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1|   Took 0.01 seconds (2682683.73 entries/sec).
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1| logfileRotate: stdio:/var/log/squid/access.log
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1| Rotate log file stdio:/var/log/squid/access.log
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01 kid1| Pinger socket opened on FD 17
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01| pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ...
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01| pinger: ICMP socket opened.
> 2015/09/18 23:59:01| pinger: ICMPv6 socket opened
> 2015/09/18 23:59:11| Pinger exiting.
> 2015/09/19 06:25:02 kid1| Closing Pinger socket on FD 17
> 2015/09/19 06:25:02| Pinger exiting.
> 
> I have a cron task to do a "squid -k rotate" at 23:59 which you can see happens, but why is pinger exiting at 06:25?

Debian Squid integrates with the system logrotate service. That appears
to be operating in its normal 6-6:30am cycle on your machine in addition
to your manual 11:59pm cron job.

Amos



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