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Squidguard download for .tar file goes where?

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    JonathanLee
    last edited by Apr 20, 2023, 2:01 AM

    Hello fellow Netgate community members,

    Can you please help? I am searching for where the Squidguard application downloads the blacklist file to, the .tar file. I have been testing different blacklists and I want to make sure all the old .tar files are now deleted now that the good original file is loaded again.

    Is it a tmp file that is deleted after use? If I change the blacklist to a new .tar file the old one is deleted right?

    Thanks,

    Make sure to upvote

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      JonathanLee @JonathanLee
      last edited by Apr 20, 2023, 2:09 AM

      @jonathanlee So I have tested about 3 different ones today and I have gone back to the original, the old .tar files are deleted each time I swap to a different URL?

      Make sure to upvote

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        Dobby_ @JonathanLee
        last edited by Apr 20, 2023, 3:41 AM

        @jonathanlee

        I am using this blacklist for SquidGuard from an french university. It ends even in the
        (/tmp/blacklist.tar.gz). for unzip and then the new
        Blacklist DB will be created.

        #~. @Dobby

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          JonathanLee @Dobby_
          last edited by JonathanLee Apr 20, 2023, 3:36 PM Apr 20, 2023, 3:24 PM

          @dobby_ Thanks I found it,

          Screenshot 2023-04-20 at 8.25.27 AM.png
          (Image: /tmp file being created)

          Screenshot 2023-04-20 at 8.25.41 AM.png
          (Image: File growing)

          Screenshot 2023-04-20 at 8.26.13 AM.png
          (Image: .tar located after download completed)

          If you change the blacklist it deletes this file.

          I have also read that you can place your own .tar blacklist in this location and direct the download on the web GUI to use that location and it will load the database from the /tmp location, I have not attempted it yet.

          Make sure to upvote

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            Dobby_ @JonathanLee
            last edited by Apr 21, 2023, 4:58 AM

            @jonathanlee

            SquidGuard "General settings TAB"
            For automatic loading this option here must be activated
            as if I was not getting it wrong.
            SquidGuard.jpg

            SquidGuard "Blacklist TAB"
            And this should be for manual loading that lists but multiple of them (one after one). Links keep stored for the next "run".
            SquidGuard 2.jpg

            #~. @Dobby

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