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    Dansguardian issues on 2.1 (service status and others)

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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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                      • C
                        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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                          • M
                            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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                                            Macom2007
                                            last edited by

                                            @marcelloc:

                                            did you saved dansguardian config on gui after package reinstall?

                                            Yes, I did. The error stays :-(

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