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    Dansguardian issues on 2.1 (service status and others)

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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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          Help a community developer! ;D

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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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              Help a community developer! ;D

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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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                  Help a community developer! ;D

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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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                          Help a community developer! ;D

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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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                                Help a community developer! ;D

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