Problem with web uploads in new dansguardian 2.12.0.3

rjcrowder

As an addition to previous instructions, if you are doing automatic blacklist updates you will also want to overwrite /usr/pbi/dansguardian-xxx/sbin/dansguardian with this one, as that's what is used in the blacklist update script.

OK… here's how my insall looks...

dansguardian executable is /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/sbin/dansguardian

There is a "hard link"
/usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/.sbin/dansguardian --> /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/sbin
There is a symbolic link
/usr/local/sbin/dansguardian --> /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/.sbin/dansguardian

So... if I'm understanding this correctly, you really only need to replace one file...
/usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/sbin/dansguardian

rjcrowder

OK… it seems that I was wrong...

I have no idea what the file "/usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/.sbin/dansguardian" is... it is not a hard link. However it is a lot smaller than the dansguardian executable located in the "sbin" directory... AND, it seems to execute whatever you put in the "sbin" directory.

In other words... it acts like a hard link - but it isn't. Anyone know what it is?

Update: It appears that all installed packages have a ".sbin" directory and an executable in them that links back to the exe in the "sbin" directory. Squid has the same thing... and the squid executable in ".sbin" is the same size as the dansguardian executable in ".sbin". Is this some kind of dynamically linked exe or something?

rjcrowder

I was just wondering if the "web upload" problem has been fixed in the package that is available from the pfSense repository? Does anyone know? Or do we still need to overwrite it with the one directly from Marcello? Thanks!

cnd.fflv

Till last week (I did fresh installation on Jan 20th) it had the same problem - issue was not fixed so far… :(

dvosburg

Here is the fix for 32-bit, applied today (01/28/2014) and it worked beautifully:

rm -rf /usr/local/etc/dansguardian
ln -s /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/etc/dansguardian /usr/local/etc/dansguardian
killall dansguardian
cd /usr/local/sbin
fetch http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/dansguardian
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/dansguardian
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh start

timthetortoise

Please note that you actually want the executable in the /usr/pbi/dansguardian-xxx/sbin folder and not /usr/local/sbin. It is only actually launched in scripts from the /usr/pbi folder (and /usr/local/sbin/dansguardian should be a symlink to the PBI executable).

cnd.fflv

Hi there.

Actually, it seems like you do not need to delete /usr/local/etc/dansguardian and make a soft link after that.

I just replaced /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/sbin/dansguardian with provided one (fetch http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/dansguardian), made it executable, restart DG and it works fine. I am uploading this post after above operations.

PS. but I still did killall dansguardian before…

cirkit

@marcelloc:

I've fixed the code. ;D

The patch 11 was malformed and broke up web upload check.

I did not pushed it to dansguardian devel or freebsd patch yet.

Test my dansguardian package and see if it works

I've also included the code to limit upload size(was not working on 2.12.0.2 AFAIK)

amd64
http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/amd64/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_1.tbz

i386
http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/8/All/dansguardian-2.12.0.3_1.tbz

Do not forget to kill dansguardian process before trying new packge binaries.

The above patched version worked perfect but since 9th april 2014 the available packages webpage within pfsense shows only 2.12.0.3_2 version which is partially broken and gives errors of contentscanner directories missing while booting…also start/ stop /restart of dansguardian from ssh via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh also reports errors..Pl restore the 2.12.0.3_1 link in the available packages so everything works fine again

Thanks

rjcrowder

It seems that the problem with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh is that it is looking for "/usr/local/sbin/dansguardian" in the process name. However, the process name is being created with "/usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/sbin"…

Not sure why... A temporary workaround would be to edit the file /usr/local/pkg/dansguardian_rc.template and change the path in the variable "command" (line number 29)

Change
command="/usr/local/sbin/${name}"
to
command="/usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/sbin/${name}"

Note that if you are running the 32 bit version or "i386" you would put that instead of "amd64"... Anyway - make the above change and reboot. Script should work now.

Not having much luck figuring out the other startup errors...

cirkit

Yes after the changes the script worked to start / stop /restart dansguardian.
Couple of issues still remain unresolved i.e

During startup the package complains about missing exceptionviruslist files in /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/etc/dansguardian/lists
Its also complains about missing clamd.conf file
Webupload banned

Pl help
cirkit

rjcrowder

@cirkit:

During startup the package complains about missing exceptionviruslist files in /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/etc/dansguardian/lists

Its also complains about missing clamd.conf file

I haven't figured these two out yet, but if I have time I will look over the weekend.

@cirkit:

Webupload banned

This can be fixed by overwriting the dansguardian executable with a different version… look through previos posts in this same thread.

Marcello - are you watching these posts? Any chance you could make changes quickly or simply roll back the version? Thanks!!!

cnd.fflv

Hi guys…

I need to make a new pfSense box, but can't get DansGuarding working properly - facing the same problem as cirkit.

Will you please (at least for now) roll back the version? It worked fine with just replacing binary...

Thanks.

doktornotor

@rjcrowder:

Marcello - are you watching these posts? Any chance you could make changes quickly or simply roll back the version? Thanks!!!

Not really sure what you are expecting from him since he cannot commit anything anyway. Another "improvement" in development… ::)

rjcrowder

Wow! That's incredibly inconvenient. Why was that change made?

doktornotor

@rjcrowder:

Why was that change made?

You can ask at the relevant thread, already shared my thoughts there. >:(

cnd.fflv

Hi there.

Any updates on these issues?

mbrossar

@dvosburg:

Here is the fix for 32-bit, applied today (01/28/2014) and it worked beautifully:

rm -rf /usr/local/etc/dansguardian
ln -s /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/etc/dansguardian /usr/local/etc/dansguardian
killall dansguardian
cd /usr/local/sbin
fetch http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/dansguardian
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/dansguardian
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh start

Had the same problem as everyone else. ssh-ed into my pfsense box. Opened a shell. Executed this exactly as entered above. Works perfectly!

Thanks dvosburg!

Pinnacle

I had the same issue on a amd64 setup, the commands are nearly the same but I thought I would post it again for clarity.

Here is the fix for 64-bit, worked like a charm:

rm -rf /usr/local/etc/dansguardian
ln -s /usr/pbi/dansguardian-amd64/etc/dansguardian /usr/local/etc/dansguardian
killall dansguardian
cd /usr/local/sbin
fetch http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/amd64/dansguardian
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/dansguardian
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh start

edosselio

Got the same issue. For me, mschiek01's instructions at https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=75243.0 solved the issue. :D

bmbeverst

I found that these fixes did not work for pfsense 2.1.3 and 2.12.0.3_2 pkg v.0.1.12 on a 32 bit system.

I was able to fix it by backing up and overwriting the dansguardian executable at /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/sbin.

Commands:


cd /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/sbin/
mv dansguardian{,.org}
fetch http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/dansguardian
/usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/etc/rc.d/dansguardian onerestart

Please note that the commands will be different if you are on a 64 bit machine.