After upgrade of squid, at startup the following messages are reported in cache.log: 2012/09/26 13:04:51| pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ... 2012/09/26 13:04:51| cc(82) Open: icmp_sock: (1) Operation not permitted 2012/09/26 13:04:51| pinger: Unable to start ICMP pinger. 2012/09/26 13:04:51| cc(122) Open: icmp_sock: (1) Operation not permitted 2012/09/26 13:04:51| pinger: Unable to start ICMPv6 pinger. 2012/09/26 13:04:51| FATAL: pinger: Unable to open any ICMP sockets. This is related to the permissions of /usr/libexec/squid/pinger: # ll /usr/libexec/squid/pinger -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 72392 Sep 26 12:51 /usr/libexec/squid/pinger Setting permissions as follows solved the problem: # chmod 4755 /usr/libexec/squid/pinger Now the log looks like this: 2012/09/26 15:53:29 kid1| IcmpSquid.cc(255) Open: Pinger socket opened on FD 17 ... 2012/09/26 15:53:29| pinger: Initialising ICMP pinger ... 2012/09/26 15:53:29| pinger: ICMP socket opened. Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.9 (hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.2.2-hardened-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.2-hardened-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_3060_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo my_local_overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mero.madeiratecnopolo.pt/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm hardened iconv ipv6 justify logrotate mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre pppd readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads truetype unicode urandom zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Here are the use flags for squid: # emerge -pv squid These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ~] net-proxy/squid-3.2.1 USE="pam snmp ssl -caps -ecap -icap-client (-ipf-transparent) -ipv6 -kerberos (-kqueue) -ldap -logrotate -mysql -nis (-pf-transparent) -postgres -qos -radius -samba -sasl (-selinux) -sqlite -ssl-crtd -test -tproxy" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
+*squid-3.2.1-r1 (26 Sep 2012) + + 26 Sep 2012; Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> +squid-3.2.1-r1.ebuild: + pinger needs suid - bug #436304 + Thanks for the report.
