[squid-users] Pinger exiting

Sat Sep 19 21:38:46 UTC 2015

Hey,

Why it is exiting is one thing.
But with your settings you can disable it and feel OK with it.
add "pinger_enable off" to your squid.conf.
Take a look at:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/pinger_enable/

Eliezer

On 19/09/2015 10:58, 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?
>
> For completeness here's my uncommented squid.conf
>
> Cheers,
> MarkJ
>
> acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8     # RFC1918 possible internal network
> acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12  # RFC1918 possible internal network
> acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
> acl localnet src fc00::/7       # RFC 4193 local private network range
> acl localnet src fe80::/10      # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
> acl SSL_ports port 443
> acl Safe_ports port 80          # http
> acl Safe_ports port 21          # ftp
> acl Safe_ports port 443         # https
> acl Safe_ports port 70          # gopher
> acl Safe_ports port 210         # wais
> acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535  # unregistered ports
> acl Safe_ports port 280         # http-mgmt
> acl Safe_ports port 488         # gss-http
> acl Safe_ports port 591         # filemaker
> acl Safe_ports port 777         # multiling http
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain .update.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain download.windowsupdate.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain redir.metaservices.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain images.metaservices.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain c.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain www.download.windowsupdate.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain wustat.windows.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain crl.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain sls.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain productactivation.one.microsoft.com
> acl windowsupdate dstdomain ntservicepack.microsoft.com
> acl wuCONNECT dstdomain www.update.microsoft.com
> acl wuCONNECT dstdomain sls.microsoft.com
> http_access deny !Safe_ports
> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
> http_access deny manager
> http_access allow CONNECT wuCONNECT localnet
> http_access allow windowsupdate localnet
> http_access allow localnet
> http_access allow localhost
> http_access deny all
> http_port 3128
> cache_mem 128 MB
> maximum_object_size_in_memory 256 KB
> maximum_object_size 512 MB
> memory_replacement_policy lru
> cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA
> cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid 16384 32 256
> quick_abort_min -1 KB
> client_request_buffer_max_size 128 KB
> coredump_dir /var/spool/squid
> access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
> cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log
> netdb_filename none
> refresh_pattern -i microsoft.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|[ap]sf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern -i windowsupdate.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|[ap]sf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern -i windows.com/.*\.(cab|exe|ms[i|u|f]|[ap]sf|wm[v|a]|dat|zip) 4320 80% 43200 reload-into-ims
> refresh_pattern (\.deb|\.udeb)$ 1440 80% 10080
> refresh_pattern ^ftp:           1440    20%     10080
> refresh_pattern ^gopher:        1440    0%      1440
> refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0     0%      0
> refresh_pattern .               0       20%     4320
> dns_nameservers 203.50.2.71 139.130.4.4
> host_verify_strict on
> max_filedescriptors 16384
> dns_v4_first on
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