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    Dansguardian issues on 2.1 (service status and others)

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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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                                        Legion
                                        last edited by

                                        I have a similar issue. I just installed Dansguardian today to try and get it up and running. The service won't start. E.g.:

                                        @marcelloc:

                                        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

                                        I checked and saved all package gui tabs and get this:

                                        and similar directory path errors when pfSense is booting up.

                                        On the Dansguardian General tab, the SSL section looks like this:

                                        I set up certs for when I opened OpenVPN access to my box, so I can remotely admin it using a tablet. But nothing is set on Dansguardian. I'm pretty much trying default settings. E.g., here is my Groups setting:

                                        Nothing about SSL filtering. Or am I looking in the wrong spot?

                                        Also, as I save each Dansguardian tab starting from the left, the system log looks like this:

                                        Until I get to the Access Control List and get the error in the second image that made me investigate further and prompted me to post this thread reply.

                                        BTW, I have Dansguardian's built-in antivirus setting disabled since I already had Havp installed and running.

                                        Any advice on how to get this working? It's not a showstopper for me - I can go back to SquidGuard/Squid/Havp but I wanted to try Squid/Dansguardian to see how it compared.

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                                        • marcellocM
                                          marcelloc
                                          last edited by

                                          try to force file permissions alerted in logs and see if cert dir exists.

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