mån 2010-03-01 klockan 16:16 +1300 skrev Amos Jeffries: > > I did set by hand > > pinger_program /usr/lib64/squid/pinger > > pinger_enable on > > > > and i'm very shure that ping has X atributes, what am I missing? > > > > TIA > > > > LD > > I've been struggling with this one myself. It's something about the > privilege levels when run under Squid. > I suspect it's the no_suid() call when starting child helpers in > src/ipc.cc
The squid pinger helper needs to be suid root or CAP_NET_RAW to work. Has always been this way. chown root /path/to/libexec/pinger chmod u+s /path/to/libexec/pinger alternatively (if filesystem capabilities is supported) setcap cap_net_raw=ep /path/to/libexec/pinger Regards Henrik
