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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

      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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              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 timeĀ  :))

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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 Ā 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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