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    Lightsquid 500 - Internal Server Error

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    • L Offline
      luke240778
      last edited by

      From reading a few other posts on the net.. and already reinstalling squid and lightsquid and still getting this error, it seems it could be perl related?

      if i run: pkg_info -lx perl

      It tells me perl is not installed… so how do i get perl installed?  I cant see it in the packages list, and i dont know how to install packages via command line

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        Cino
        last edited by

        pkg_add -r http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/perl-5.12.3.tbz

        that should do it. hmm, what packages to you have installed btw? is lightsquid there? because perl should had installed when lightsquid was being installed

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          luke240778
          last edited by

          how do i check what packages are installed? I mean, in the GUI it shows Lightsquid as being installed..

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            Cino
            last edited by

            pkg_info will should all the freebsd packages that are installed… the gui shows the pfsense package but there are usually dependencys that are required... in this case perl is needed for lightsquid to function

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              luke240778
              last edited by

              Ok strange.. when i run just pkg_info it says perl is installed… but when i run pkg_info -lx perl it says its not installed.. here is what pkg_info shows:

              GeoIP-1.4.8_1      Find the country that any IP address or hostname originates
              bsdinstaller-2.0.2011.0913 BSD Installer mega-package
              cyrus-sasl-2.1.25_1 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
              expat-2.0.1_1      XML 1.0 parser written in C
              expat-2.0.1_2      XML 1.0 parser written in C
              font-util-1.2.0    Create an index of X font files in a directory
              fontconfig-2.8.0,1  An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
              fontconfig-2.8.0_1,1 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
              freetype2-2.4.3    A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
              freetype2-2.4.4    A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
              freetype2-2.4.7    A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
              gd-2.0.35_7,1      A graphics library for fast creation of images
              gdbm-1.8.3_3        The GNU database manager
              gettext-0.18.1.1    GNU gettext package
              graphviz-2.28.0    Graph Visualization Software from AT&T and Bell Labs
              iperf-2.0.4        A tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth
              jpeg-8_3            IJG's jpeg compression utilities
              libart_lgpl-2.3.21,1 Library for high-performance 2D graphics
              libevent-1.4.14b_2  Provides an API to execute callback functions on certain ev
              libiconv-1.13.1_1  A character set conversion library
              libltdl-2.4        System independent dlopen wrapper
              libltdl-2.4_1      System independent dlopen wrapper
              libpcap-1.1.1_1    Ubiquitous network traffic capture library
              libwww-5.4.0_4      The W3C Reference Library
              libxml2-2.7.8_1    XML parser library for GNOME
              lightsquid-1.8_2    A light and fast web based squid proxy traffic analyser
              ntop-4.0.1_1        Network monitoring tool with command line and web interface
              openldap-client-2.4.26 Open source LDAP client implementation
              p5-GD-2.46          A perl5 interface to Gd Graphics Library version2
              p7zip-9.13          File archiver with high compression ratio
              perl-5.12.3        Practical Extraction and Report Language
              perl-5.12.4        Practical Extraction and Report Language
              perl-5.12.4_3      Practical Extraction and Report Language
              pkg-config-0.25_1  A utility to retrieve information about installed libraries
              png-1.4.4          Library for manipulating PNG images
              png-1.4.5_1        Library for manipulating PNG images
              png-1.4.8          Library for manipulating PNG images
              python27-2.7.2_1    An interpreted object-oriented programming language
              rrdtool-1.2.26_1    Round Robin Database Tools
              squid-2.7.9_1      HTTP Caching Proxy
              squid_radius_auth-1.10 RADIUS authenticator for squid proxy 2.5 and later
              urwfonts-1.0_3      Another font package for X
              webfonts-0.30_6    TrueType core fonts for the Web
              zabbix-agent-1.8.5,2 Enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring (agent)
              zip-3.0            Create/update ZIP files compatible with pkzip

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                luke240778
                last edited by

                Any ideas?  I have reinstalled squid and lightsquid and apparently perl is installed.. still not working

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                  scooterdouglas
                  last edited by

                  From the output of the command "pkg_info", you can see that you have three version of perl installed.

                  Type the command:

                  perl -v

                  Check the following directories for any perl symlinks:

                  /usr/bin
                    /usr/local/bin

                  Delete any that you find, then:

                  cd /usr/bin

                  ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl

                  ls -ltr | grep -i perl

                  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      19 Sep 11 23:02 perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl

                  perl -v

                  That is how I solved the Error 500 message.

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                    luke240778
                    last edited by

                    @scooterdouglas:

                    From the output of the command "pkg_info", you can see that you have three version of perl installed.

                    Type the command:

                    perl -v

                    Check the following directories for any perl symlinks:

                    /usr/bin
                      /usr/local/bin
                     
                    Delete any that you find, then:

                    cd /usr/bin

                    ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl

                    ls -ltr | grep -i perl

                    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       19 Sep 11 23:02 perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl

                    perl -v

                    That is how I solved the Error 500 message.

                    Thanks for this help, when i run: perl -v i getthe following

                    This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for i386-freebsd-64int

                    Maybe this is a problem as i have 64bit pfSense.. and i386 perl?

                    Sorry to be a noob but i don't know what is a symlink.. in /usr/bin the only reference i see to perl is this:

                    perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl

                    Is that a symlink and therefore i need to delete it?

                    In /usr/local/bin/i have the following for perl:

                    perl
                    perl-after-upgrade
                    perl5.12.3
                    perl5.12.4
                    perlbug
                    perlivp
                    perlthanks

                    Are they symlinks?  need to remove anything?

                    I will wait for your reply to this before running the commands that you mentioned to do after deleting symlinks

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                      luke240778
                      last edited by

                      Someone able to help here?

                      Is having that i386 version of perl a problem?  I still can't get these lightsquid logs working.

                      I don't know how to install via command line, is there somehow i can install the 64bit version of perl?

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                        luke240778
                        last edited by

                        is anyone else who is running lightsquid on 64bit pfsense able to do me a perl -v and tell me if their perl still says i386 or not?

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                          luke240778
                          last edited by

                          If anyone else at all is able to help i would really aprreciate it.. i am still stuck and without Lightsquid logs.. THis is very importand for me to have , but i have no idea how i am going to fix this.

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                            luke240778
                            last edited by

                            Ok, so no one knows about how to fix this once and for all?

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                            • jimpJ Offline
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              Hit it with a sledgehammer.

                              Or, uninstall lightsquid and squid/squidguard, then from the shell:

                              pkg_delete -f squid*
                              pkg_delete -f perl*

                              Then reinstall squid, then reinstall lightsquid.

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                                asmat
                                last edited by

                                Sorry to dig up this old thread, but this happened to me recently, TWICE.

                                And the fix for me was to go inside lightsquid config and change the squid log directory to var/squid/log. The default on install tell lightsquid to search on var/squid/logs

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