Squid service not starting on 1.2.3

[rexis]

I have a newly installed 1.2.3 PfSense on an old PC, and squid package is installed.

Status > Services shows squid is stopped. And it won't start if I click start here.

On installed package, version information shows:

Current: Unknown.
Installed: 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.1

When I click on Services > Proxy Server I will get:

Warning: dir(/usr/pbi/squid-i386/etc/squid/errors/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 1699 Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc on line 1700

Any idea what happened? If possible I would like to stick with 1.2.3

[cmb]

1.2.3 packages haven't been maintained in quite some time. There have likely been some changes in Squid's files since then that are PHP 5 dependent. You shouldn't be running 1.2.3 anymore regardless.

[rexis]

I noticed that there have been changes on the squid package from time to time, but at least it still works on 1.2.3 just 4 months back!

If all else failed, I will have to update all my pfsenses to 2.0!

[rexis]

Duh… I guess the question now is anyway I can get the previous version of squid package? I feel rather happy with 1.2.3 @_@

[marcelloc]

@rexis:

I noticed that there have been changes on the squid package from time to time, but at least it still works on 1.2.3 just 4 months back!

The problem is the package update for pfsense 2.1.

change on squid.inc file lines 42 to 46 from this:

if (substr(trim(file_get_contents("/etc/version")),0,3) == "2.0") {
	define('SQUID_LOCALBASE','/usr/local');
} else {
	define('SQUID_LOCALBASE', '/usr/pbi/squid-' . php_uname("m"));
}

To this:

$pf_version=substr(trim(file_get_contents("/etc/version")),0,3);
if ($pf_version > 2.0)
	define('SQUID_LOCALBASE', '/usr/pbi/squid-' . php_uname("m"));
else
  define('SQUID_LOCALBASE','/usr/local');

Test if it works on your 1.2.3 and feedback.

@rexis:

If all else failed, I will have to update all my pfsenses to 2.0!

Good, pfsense 1.2.3 has security issues reported (freebsd ssh IIRC)

[rexis]

@marcelloc:

Test if it works on your 1.2.3 and feedback.

Tested and,

Yes it works, Status: Services now shows Squid is running green and I can finally see Proxy server: General settings page now!

Thanks.

May I know more details about the security issues?