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      Claw22000
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      @avp:

      Which version of pfSense are you using?

      Which squid pkg have you installed?

      I've fought with pf +Squid + HAVP + SG for quite some time.  I usually come out on top, but sometimes it takes time…  So I would say there is a way to get it to work, just need to work through the issues...

      2.0.3-RELEASE (i386)
      built on Fri Apr 12 10:22:21 EDT 2013
      FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13

      Squid3 3.1.20 pkg 2.0.6

      So do I have to install the pkgs in that order?  I installed hvap then squid then SG.

      Thanks again for everyone looking in to this for me.

      DrClaw

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        avp
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        So right now you have squid3 running, with havp, in transparent proxy mode?  And you haven't tried to install SG again yet?

        Is that about right?

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          Claw22000
          last edited by

          because the previous poster asked me about logs I installed SG again to see if I could find anything for them.  So it is installed and SG is again not running.  I'm sure if I restarted the server right now both services would be down.

          DrClaw

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            avp
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            try SSHing into the pfsense box (You need to enable SSH under System/Advanced). ( ssh admin@ <pf ip="">or use Putty on Windows)

            change to

            /usr/local/etc/rc.d

            and then

            ./squid.sh start

            and see if there is an error

            (I'm on 2.1RC, but I imagine the directories would be the same…)</pf>

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              Claw22000
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              @Claw22000:

              because the previous poster asked me about logs I installed SG again to see if I could find anything for them.  So it is installed and SG is again not running.  I'm sure if I restarted the server right now both services would be down.

              The first time I tried it. I got nothing.  However thats because squid was still running.  So I wen to Status > Services, and stopped the service.  Then went back to the shell and tried again.

              This is what I got

              FATAL: Unable to open configuration file: /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf: (13) Permission denied
              Squid Cache (Version 2.7.STABLE9): Terminated abnormally.
              CPU Usage: 0.007 seconds = 0.007 user + 0.000 sys
              Maximum Resident Size: 1348 KB
              Page faults with physical i/o: 0
              Abort trap

              I went back to the services and tried starting it there and it still won't start.

              DrClaw

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                Claw22000
                last edited by

                For lack of a better Idea I tried uninstalling the pkgs and installing them in reverse order and no that does not work.  So I will wait till I'm instructed to do something further as I am completely clueless as to what to try next.

                Thanks to all who take the time to assist.

                DrClaw

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                  Gloom
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                  Your squid.conf has an error in it. The line http_port 127.0.0.1:3128 intercept should read http_port 127.0.0.1:3128 transparent

                  If it still acts up after the change please post you squid.conf

                  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

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                    avp
                    last edited by

                    To me, it sounds like there are a couple of issues:

                    1. "Squid Cache (Version 2.7.STABLE9)" sounds like Squid v2.7 - I seem to recall, that maybe if you install SG, a certain version, it may install Squid 2.7 automatically.  This may or may not be an issue.

                    2. in the same dir as before, do "less squid.sh", paste the contents of squid.sh here.

                    3. do "find / -name squid.sh" to locate all instances of squid.conf.

                    I'm wondering if your system is trying to use squid2.7, and squid 2.7 either doesn't have a conf file, or doesn't have one configured correctly for pf.

                    4. do a "pkg_info", it will list all installed packages, paste here

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                      avp
                      last edited by

                      If there is a squid.conf at /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf, what are the permissions on it?

                      do an "ls -l"

                      If the file is there, paste its contents too.

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                        Claw22000
                        last edited by

                        @Gloom:

                        Your squid.conf has an error in it. The line http_port 127.0.0.1:3128 intercept should read http_port 127.0.0.1:3128 transparent

                        If it still acts up after the change please post you squid.conf

                        I have checked more that once and it is set as transparent in Services > Proxy Server.

                        I have also edited the file and changed the setting.

                        @avp:

                        To me, it sounds like there are a couple of issues:

                        1. "Squid Cache (Version 2.7.STABLE9)" sounds like Squid v2.7 - I seem to recall, that maybe if you install SG, a certain version, it may install Squid 2.7 automatically.  This may or may not be an issue.

                        2. in the same dir as before, do "less squid.sh", paste the contents of squid.sh here.

                        3. do "find / -name squid.sh" to locate all instances of squid.conf.

                        I'm wondering if your system is trying to use squid2.7, and squid 2.7 either doesn't have a conf file, or doesn't have one configured correctly for pf.

                        4. do a "pkg_info", it will list all installed packages, paste here

                        @avp:

                        If there is a squid.conf at /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf, what are the permissions on it?

                        do an "ls -l"

                        If the file is there, paste its contents too.

                        Ok here goes (I've noticed theres an formatting command in this so I added spaces to fix this. The spaces are not in the real file just this example to prevent the site from slashin out the writing.)

                        less squid.sh
                        #!/bin/sh

                        This file was automatically generated

                        by the pfSense service handler.

                        rc_start() {
                                if [ -z "ps auxw | grep "[ s ]quid "|awk '{print $2}'" ];then
                                /usr/local/sbin/squid -f /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf
                        fi

                        }

                        rc_stop() {
                                /usr/local/sbin/squid -k shutdown -f /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf

                        Just to be sure…

                        sleep 5
                        killall -9 squid 2>/dev/null
                        killall pinger 2>/dev/null

                        }

                        case $1 in
                                start)
                                        rc_start
                                        ;;
                                stop)
                                        rc_stop
                                        ;;
                                restart)
                                        rc_stop
                                        rc_start
                                        ;;
                        esac


                        find / -name squid.sh
                        find: /etc/ntp: Permission denied
                        /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh
                        find: /var/spool/opielocks: Permission denied
                        find: /var/log/squid: Permission denied
                        find: /var/heimdal: Permission denied
                        find: /var/db/ipf: Permission denied
                        find: /var/db/freebsd-update: Permission denied
                        find: /var/db/entropy: Permission denied
                        find: /var/cron: Permission denied
                        find: /var/crash: Permission denied
                        find: /var/backups: Permission denied
                        find: /var/audit: Permission denied
                        find: /var/squid/cache: Permission denied
                        find: /tmp/lighttpdcompress/javascript: Permission denied


                        pkg_info
                        arc-5.21p          Create & extract files from DOS .ARC files
                        arj-3.10.22_4      Open-source ARJ
                        bsdinstaller-2.0.2013.0412 BSD Installer mega-package
                        clamav-0.97.5_1    Command line virus scanner written entirely in C
                        cyrus-sasl-2.1.23_3 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
                        cyrus-sasl-2.1.26_2 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
                        db41-4.1.25_4      The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.1
                        gettext-0.18.1.1    GNU gettext package
                        havp-0.91_1        HTTP Antivirus Proxy
                        lha-1.14i_6        Archive files using LZSS and Huffman compression (.lzh file
                        libiconv-1.14      A character set conversion library
                        libltdl-2.4.2      System independent dlopen wrapper
                        libwww-5.4.0_4      The W3C Reference Library
                        openldap-client-2.4.31_1 Open source LDAP client implementation
                        openldap-client-2.4.35 Open source LDAP client implementation
                        perl-5.14.2_3      Practical Extraction and Report Language
                        perl-threaded-5.12.4_4 Practical Extraction and Report Language
                        sqlite3-3.7.17_1    SQL database engine in a C library
                        squid-2.7.9_4      HTTP Caching Proxy
                        squid-3.1.20        HTTP Caching Proxy
                        squidGuard-1.4_4    A fast redirector for squid
                        unzoo-4.4_2        A zoo archive extractor


                        ls -l
                        total 318
                        -rw-r-----  1 proxy  proxy    419 Sep  3 20:06 cachemgr.conf
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy    419 Jun 19  2012 cachemgr.conf.default
                        -rw-r-----  1 proxy  proxy    1547 Sep  3 20:10 errorpage.css
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy    1547 Jun 19  2012 errorpage.css.default
                        drwxr-xr-x  81 proxy  proxy    3072 Sep  3 20:10 errors
                        drwxr-xr-x  2 proxy  proxy    1024 Sep  3 20:09 icons
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy  30845 Jun 19  2012 mib.txt
                        -rw-r-----  1 proxy  proxy  11651 Sep  3 20:06 mime.conf
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy  11651 Jun 19  2012 mime.conf.default
                        -rw-r-----  1 proxy  proxy    421 Sep  3 20:10 msntauth.conf
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy    421 Jun 19  2012 msntauth.conf.default
                        -rw-r-----  1 proxy  proxy    2003 Sep  3 20:04 squid.conf
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy    2425 Jun 19  2012 squid.conf.default
                        -r--r--r--  1 proxy  proxy  208245 Jun 19  2012 squid.conf.documented
                        -rw-r--r--  1 proxy  proxy  11136 Sep  3 20:08 squidGuard.conf
                        -rw-r--r--  1 proxy  proxy    1616 Jun 10 13:03 squidGuard.conf.sample


                        I have noticed the squid it self is working now that I reinstalled them in reverse order.  I can stop and start squid with no problems now.

                        Just need to get that squidguard working now.

                        Thanks so much for all the attention to my issues guys.

                        so whats next?

                        DrClaw

                        DrClaw

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                          avp
                          last edited by

                          ok, so as you can see, there are 2 squid pkgs installed.  This may or may not be a problem.  I'd be inclined to uninstall the 2.7 one…

                          Are you actually running from a shell, or are you using the Execute shell command from the gui?  The reason I ask, is that if you are logged into the box via SSH, you would/should have root access, and you shouldn't see so many permissions denied msgs.  This is what you want to do, SSH in, use putty for Windows, or SSH on *nix variants...

                          In the squid gui config page, closer to the bottom, Custom settings, Integrations, you will see this:

                          /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf
                          

                          you can try this from the shell to see if you can manually run SG.  report any errors.

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                            Claw22000
                            last edited by

                            @avp:

                            ok, so as you can see, there are 2 squid pkgs installed.  This may or may not be a problem.  I'd be inclined to uninstall the 2.7 one…

                            Are you actually running from a shell, or are you using the Execute shell command from the gui?  The reason I ask, is that if you are logged into the box via SSH, you would/should have root access, and you shouldn't see so many permissions denied msgs.  This is what you want to do, SSH in, use putty for Windows, or SSH on *nix variants...

                            In the squid gui config page, closer to the bottom, Custom settings, Integrations, you will see this:

                            /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf
                            

                            you can try this from the shell to see if you can manually run SG.  report any errors.

                            I am using putty.  I used to run a BBS software on telnet so me and my friend could play some old BBS games we liked.

                            I will try this and report what happens.

                            Again Thanks so much!

                            DrClaw

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                              Claw22000
                              last edited by

                              @avp:

                              ok, so as you can see, there are 2 squid pkgs installed.  This may or may not be a problem.  I'd be inclined to uninstall the 2.7 one…

                              In the squid gui config page, closer to the bottom, Custom settings, Integrations, you will see this:

                              /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf
                              

                              you can try this from the shell to see if you can manually run SG.  report any errors.

                              How do I uninstall just the 2.7 version?

                              I think the issue with the shell was I was logged in as my own user.  In *nix varians I was taught to always login as a secondary user and only use root, or in this case Admin, for those rare occasions you absolutely need to.

                              Ok so heres what happened.

                              I ran that code and waited for quite a long time and the it just sat there. So I went in to the GUI and it says started!  tried surfing too redtube dot com and playboy dot com and it didn't block either one.  Went in and told it to download the block list from shallalist it completed successfully.  check to see if the right blocks were still there.  They were.  saved, and applied changes.  Surfed to the two sites again and still able to go there.

                              So it shows its up.  But its not working.

                              Is this due to having 2 installs of Squid?

                              if so how do I remove just one 1?

                              Thanks

                              DrClaw

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                                Claw22000
                                last edited by

                                I know its tacky to reply 2 times let alone 3 on your own question, but I just tested it and notice it was blocking the sites I listed previously.  So I guess what needs to be done next is just uninstall the older version of squid, and make the needed changes so if power fails or for some reason I need to power down the box to move it I can.  At lease without having to manually enter that every time.

                                Again Thanks so much for all the help everyone!

                                DrClaw

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                                  avp
                                  last edited by

                                  Once you have the full name with pkg_info, you can delete with pkg_delete.

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                                    Claw22000
                                    last edited by

                                    @avp:

                                    Once you have the full name with pkg_info, you can delete with pkg_delete.

                                    I will get right on that after work.

                                    How do I make the change permanent?

                                    I don't want to have to manually start SG every time.

                                    Thanks

                                    DrClaw

                                    DrClaw

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                                      Gloom
                                      last edited by

                                      Once everything is installed and configured correctly SquidGuard will start when squid launches.
                                      I'm curious, did both versions of squid show on the installed packages page?

                                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

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                                        kejianshi
                                        last edited by

                                        I would have kept squid stable and dumped the other squids…

                                        Then I'd have backed up settings.

                                        wiped the box and reinstall.

                                        Then restore settings, check my squid settings...  Apply them again just to be sure.

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                                          Claw22000
                                          last edited by

                                          @avp:

                                          Once you have the full name with pkg_info, you can delete with pkg_delete.

                                          I tried this and got the following response.

                                          pkg_delete squid-2.7.9_4
                                          pkg_delete: package 'squid-2.7.9_4' is required by these other packages
                                          and may not be deinstalled:
                                          squidGuard-1.4_4
                                          –-----

                                          In packages it only shows the squid3.


                                          @kejianshi:

                                          I would have kept squid stable and dumped the other squids…

                                          Then I'd have backed up settings.

                                          wiped the box and reinstall.

                                          Then restore settings, check my squid settings...  Apply them again just to be sure.

                                          I like this concept.  But I'm concerned that I will end up with the same problem.  Installing again will end up with the same packages.  I really wish it would not install the older squid automatically.

                                          If I do undertake this huge task (It was a 3 day ordeal last time to get it exactly like I like it) how do I backup the settings and be sure they will retake? I ask this mainly because if I reinstall I will probably just use the older squid because of obvious reasons.  Will these setting work on the older squid?

                                          Thanks for everyones help!

                                          DrClaw

                                          DrClaw

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                                            kejianshi
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                                            Ordeals with squid shouldn't be longer than 5 minutes.

                                            It easy to reload pfsense from nothing.  Also easy to rebuild squid cache and restart it.

                                            Delete all the packages you don't want.  Install the ones you do want.  Save the config even if squid seems broken.

                                            Wipe the box, reload your pfsense.  Restore your backup of configs.

                                            You might then have to issue command to rebuild squid cache.

                                            No biggie.

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