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    Dansguardian issues on 2.1 (service status and others)

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    • rcfaR
      rcfa
      last edited by

      ~~I entered a fake user/system on the configuration page, and selected the interface to listen on.

      There's no other "enable/disable" checkmark, so I assume that should activate things.
      On the dashboard, it shows up as inactive.
      Manually starting the service from the Dashboard doesn't change anything.~~

      Not sure how this got into this thread, this section is about widentd, not Dansguardian.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        I split this off into its own thread, hopefully the maintainer will spot it and find a fix for you.

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          Cino
          last edited by

          @rcfa:

          I entered a fake user/system on the configuration page, and selected the interface to listen on.

          There's no other "enable/disable" checkmark, so I assume that should activate things.
          On the dashboard, it shows up as inactive.
          Manually starting the service from the Dashboard doesn't change anything.

          what do you mean by user/system? I dont have AV enabled, but Dansguardian is enabled and running. My dashboard and services show that they are running.. What happens if you disable AV?

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          • rcfaR
            rcfa
            last edited by

            Note: that one paragraph wasn't about Dansguardian, no idea how it got into this thread, it's about widentd.

            Still, the rest applies. Also with AV disabled, Dansguardian won't start. The syslog shows these:

            Jun 25 17:26:38 dansguardian[12003]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
            Jun 25 17:26:23 dansguardian[29500]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
            Jun 25 17:26:22 php: /pkg_edit.php: Starting Dansguardian

            Does this ring a bell?

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              Try to start it on console or run dansguardian in foreground.

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              • rcfaR
                rcfa
                last edited by

                @marcelloc:

                Try to start it on console or run dansguardian in foreground.

                This is all I get:

                root(2): dansguardian
                std::bad_alloc
                Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                root(3):

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                • rcfaR
                  rcfa
                  last edited by

                  Someone might have hit the reason of this problem:

                  http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50688.msg271304.html#msg271304

                  Incompatible pcre versions required by snort vs. dansguardian.

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                    Cino
                    last edited by

                    @rcfa:

                    Someone might have hit the reason of this problem:

                    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50688.msg271304.html#msg271304

                    Incompatible pcre versions required by snort vs. dansguardian.

                    I have them both running on my 2.1 box.. Snort was re-installed last

                    found the issue with clamav…
                    directories and permissions are not setup when the package is install

                    when manually running freshclam

                    
                    ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
                    ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
                    ERROR: Can't change dir to /var/db/clamav
                    
                    

                    I manually added the folders and started dansguardian.. its in the process of running freshclam right now.. For now I gave the folders 777 permission root/wheel.. Think it needs to be user/group clamav but figured you can't go wrong with 777.

                    another issue is the linking of files between /usr/local/etc/dansguardian and /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/etc/dansguardian

                    Also have to create folder /var/run/clamav but the package isn't starting clamd. I am able to manually start it via command line tho

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      for the service status, what does this show:

                      ps uxawww | grep -i dansguardian

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                      • rcfaR
                        rcfa
                        last edited by

                        @jimp:

                        for the service status, what does this show:

                        ps uxawww | grep -i dansguardian

                        At this point, here, nothing, because it's not running…
                        ...I guess something must try to launch it once or multiple times after a reboot or settings change => the messages
                        ...but then I guess it dies and/or gives up, because there's no running process later on.

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                          Cino
                          last edited by

                          @rcfa:

                          @jimp:

                          for the service status, what does this show:

                          ps uxawww | grep -i dansguardian

                          At this point, here, nothing, because it's not running…
                          ...I guess something must try to launch it once or multiple times after a reboot or settings change => the messages
                          ...but then I guess it dies and/or gives up, because there's no running process later on.

                          anything in your log? A while back on 2.0.1, it would die because squid wasn't running or was slow to start.. But that was corrected

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                          • rcfaR
                            rcfa
                            last edited by

                            @Cino:

                            anything in your log? A while back on 2.0.1, it would die because squid wasn't running or was slow to start.. But that was corrected

                            Nothing beyond what I had posted before below:
                            @rcfa:

                            The syslog shows these:

                            Jun 25 17:26:38 dansguardian[12003]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                            Jun 25 17:26:23 dansguardian[29500]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                            Jun 25 17:26:22 php: /pkg_edit.php: Starting Dansguardian

                            Does this ring a bell?

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                              Macom2007
                              last edited by

                              Dansguardian does not start because a problem with the log file path (dansguardian missing in that path name). See console output :

                              Error opening/creating log file. (check ownership and access rights).
                              I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log//access.log

                              Any ideas ?

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                              • marcellocM
                                marcelloc
                                last edited by

                                @Macom2007:

                                I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log//access.log

                                check and save all package gui tabs, this error shows a missing dansguardian dir on log file

                                /var/log//access.log should be /var/log/dansguardian/access.log

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                                  Macom2007
                                  last edited by

                                  Thx for your reply.

                                  I saved every gui tab. No luck so var. Why is DG trying to write to /var/log//access.log. I my dansguardian.conf the log path is /var/log/dansguardian/ ?

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

                                    @Macom2007:

                                    Why is DG trying to write to /var/log//access.log?

                                    Not sure. I have dansguardian working on 2.1 but I'll check it this week (If I have time  :))

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                                      Macom2007
                                      last edited by

                                      @Macom2007:

                                      Dansguardian does not start because a problem with the log file path (dansguardian missing in that path name). See console output :

                                      Error opening/creating log file. (check ownership and access rights).
                                      I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log//access.log

                                      Any ideas ?

                                      Any news on this ?

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        Current package version has 2.1 folder check but pbi package was built with pcre8.3.

                                        This pcre version breaks dansguardian.

                                        You can try on your install, but I'm not sure if it  will work.

                                        /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh start

                                        kern.ipc.somaxconn: 16384 -> 16384
                                        kern.maxfiles: 131072 -> 131072
                                        kern.maxfilesperproc: 104856 -> 104856
                                        kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc: 4096 -> 4096
                                        Starting dansguardian.
                                        std::bad_alloc <= Pcre issue
                                        Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files

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                                          Macom2007
                                          last edited by

                                          Thx for your response. Your suggestion does not work. See output :

                                          /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh start

                                          kern.ipc.somaxconn: 16384 -> 16384
                                          kern.maxfiles: 131072 -> 131072
                                          kern.maxfilesperproc: 104856 -> 104856
                                          kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc: 4096 -> 4096
                                          Starting dansguardian.
                                          Error opening/creating log file. (check ownership and access rights).
                                          I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log/dansguardian/access.log

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                                          • marcellocM
                                            marcelloc
                                            last edited by

                                            did you saved dansguardian config on gui after package reinstall?

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