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    Time Based restriction with Squid & Squid Guard

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved pfSense Packages
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    • K
      kalu
      last edited by

      Thanks marcelloc i'll try that

      i love pfsense because i love open source.

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        kalu
        last edited by

        sorry to let you know that . It didn't worked.
        If i restart the squidguard. The rules works
        so for the time being i had to restart the squid after office hours.
        :(
        any helping hands is really appreciated

        i love pfsense because i love open source.

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          Are you using a custom error page on squidguard?

          can you include a expire now html code on it?

          or

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            kalu
            last edited by

            Hi
            No, I'm not using custom error page.

            i love pfsense because i love open source.

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              phil.davis
              last edited by

              We (kalu and I) have made a custom error page with the code above and some text. It happily redirects there when the page is blocked. But still, SquidGuard does not change from blocking to unblocking and vice-versa at the nominated times. SquidGuard comes up correctly according to the system time when the system boots, or when we restart SquidGuard. But it doesn't seem to take any notice of the current system time as the date/time changes.
              We are seeing this on all 4 of our pfSense systems running 2.0.1 nanobsd on Alix boards from NetGate. It seems that some people have this problem, but others do not. Maybe this is related to nanobsd? Maybe there is something in the way that SquidGuard knows the system time that is not working properly on nanobsd? Something related to directories that are readonly on nanoBSD? I am just guessing!
              Does anyone have SquidGuard working with times on nanobsd?
              The current workaround is to restart SquidGuard as we arrive in the morning and leave in the evening - at the rule time change points.
              If anyone can see the problem with our settings, we will be grateful.

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              As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
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                itsmorefun
                last edited by

                Same problem for me :-(

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                  codemarauder
                  last edited by

                  I am also facing the same problem with pfSense 2.0.1, squidGuard 1.4_2 pkg v.1.9.1 and squid 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.1 on Atom D410 machine serving 300 users.

                  When squidGuard used to work properly, there were messages in the log file /var/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log to that effect:

                  
                  2012-02-29 11:26:33 [47310] Info: recalculating alarm in 3505 seconds
                  
                  

                  But now, it doesn't do it automatically.  Also, I am seeing a lot of messages to by-pass attempts using multiple slashes:

                  
                  2012-02-29 11:30:21 [47310] Warning: Possible bypass attempt. Found multiple slashes where only one is expected: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine//static/images/wol/Win7TopLogo.png
                  2012-02-29 11:30:21 [47310] Warning: Possible bypass attempt. Found multiple slashes where only one is expected: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine//static/images/wol/merged/gl_horizontal_grad_search.png
                  
                  

                  The workaround for now is a script that restarts squidGuard every 30 minutes from a remote server by logging onto webGUI over https.

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                    kalu
                    last edited by

                    Yes, i'm thinking of a cron job to restart squidguard that executes at 9:00AM and 17:00PM
                    :(

                    i love pfsense because i love open source.

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                      phil.davis
                      last edited by

                      I'm sure I noticed this problem on V2.0 also - I don't think that it is a V2.0.1 regression.

                      As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
                      If I helped you, then help someone else - buy someone a gift from the INF catalog http://secure.inf.org/gifts/usd/

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                        muffin
                        last edited by

                        Also having the same problem here running 2.0-RC1.
                        Squid: 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.1
                        Squidguard: 1.4_2 pkg v.1.9.1

                        I also get the logs about a 'Possible bypass attempt'.

                        Any news on a fix? Have been through this thread: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41747.msg222093.html#msg222093
                        But the fix did not work for me.

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                        • marcellocM
                          marcelloc
                          last edited by

                          Did you configured error response to 302?
                          http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41747.msg225863.html#msg225863

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                            codemarauder
                            last edited by

                            No. It's set at "int error page (enter error message)"

                            It's not a browser cache issue. I have also tested simply doing

                            "telnet <ip-address>3128"

                            and requesting page with

                            "GET http://in.rediff.com HTTP/1.0"
                            <enter><enter>SquidGuard tells in the log whenever it kicks a scheduler by logging " recalculating alarm in xxx seconds" depending on how many seconds are remaining to kick on or off a scheduler.

                            My observation is that it forgets about it's timekeeping job, until kicked with a reconfigure command.</enter></enter></ip-address>

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                              kalu
                              last edited by

                              i agree with codemarauder

                              i love pfsense because i love open source.

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                                codemarauder
                                last edited by

                                Bumping just to see if there is any interest alive in resolving the issue.

                                I am still doing "Apply" every 30 mins to keep its scheduler sane.

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                                • marcellocM
                                  marcelloc
                                  last edited by

                                  You can workaround this with a script on cron until somebody finds what is wrong.

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                                  Help a community developer! ;D

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                                    phil.davis
                                    last edited by

                                    I am hoping to test soon on a 2.1DEV test system to see if FreeBSD 8.3 is any better or different. I am just having trouble getting Squid to install on 2.1 at the moment.

                                    As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
                                    If I helped you, then help someone else - buy someone a gift from the INF catalog http://secure.inf.org/gifts/usd/

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                                    • marcellocM
                                      marcelloc
                                      last edited by

                                      You can install squid using pkg_add.

                                      Take a look on files.pfsense.org

                                      After you copy squid link, just do Pkg_add -r link_to_squid_package from console

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                                        muffin
                                        last edited by

                                        @marcelloc:

                                        You can workaround this with a script on cron until somebody finds what is wrong.

                                        What would the command be to restart squidguard?

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                                          phil.davis
                                          last edited by

                                          On my test 2.1DEV 1G nanobsd system, I did:

                                          pkg_add -r http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/squid-2.7.9_1.tbz

                                          It loads dependencies also, (cyrus, openldap, perl) spits out a lot of messages about things that don't exist during the perl phase. But none of this installs the pfSense-specific bits - the items on the web configurator menus and the php that goes with it. But, of course, it doesn't show up in "Installed Packages". So I can't configure Squid using the web configurator. It would be nice if the "Available Packages" list showed newer versions of the packages. But I have no idea how that list is loaded from a server somewhere.

                                          Am I trying to do this all too early? Are the packages for 2.1DEV not up and running properly yet?
                                          or
                                          Are there more commands I can execute to install all the remaining pfSense bits of the package?

                                          Also, how do I know which version and type of packages are supposed to go with 2.1DEV?

                                          There are new tbz packages available dated 5 March, but there are also pbi packages with the same version numbers that have been there a while. I guess that the pbi packages are intended for using pbi_add with future systems based on FreeBSD9.

                                          How does the "Available Packages" page know which version to offer?

                                          Sorry for all the questions - I think I now need to read up on the whole development environment to get involved with testing or debugging!

                                          As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle."
                                          If I helped you, then help someone else - buy someone a gift from the INF catalog http://secure.inf.org/gifts/usd/

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                                          • marcellocM
                                            marcelloc
                                            last edited by

                                            I think the way cino does to install packages on 2.1 on his 2.1 pfsense are

                                            Install pfsense package with gui and then go to console
                                            Install freebsd package with pkg_add.

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                                            Help a community developer! ;D

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