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    Dansguardian issues on 2.1 (service status and others)

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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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                                        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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                                        • marcellocM
                                          marcelloc
                                          last edited by

                                          Uninstall and reinstall too? my setup went fine(except for pcre) with 2.1 package install.

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                                            Macom2007
                                            last edited by

                                            @marcelloc:

                                            Uninstall and reinstall too? my setup went fine(except for pcre) with 2.1 package install.

                                            I uninstalled, installed dansguardian and than i did this :

                                            chown nobody:nobody /var/log

                                            Now it is running, but i am not sure if this affects other packages ?

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