Squid3 - New GUI with sync, normal and reverse proxy

edanpedragosa

I tried and monitored every day. Squid still turns off after a day.

I will try a pfsense reinstall soon and see if it will happen again.

mhill

Hi all,
Thanks to all the posts here I am successfully running squid3-dev 3.3.10 as a squid-in-the-middle SSL proxy.

Before I put this in production, I'd like to put additional CAs we trust (the US Department of Defense root CAs) where squid can use them. I got the impression that importing them into the pfSense web GUI System: Certificate Authority Manager would help, but it has not made a difference so far. Do I need to put those certs somewhere else?

Thanks

ha11oga11o

@ha11oga11o:

@bellera:

@ha11oga11o:

Failed to install package.

Installation halted.

Be patient. I had also this problem some weeks ago:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=73919.0

I will try to install it many times in row. But seems every try it needs system reboot because once installation fails it cannot see packages.

many thnx for reply :)

Still same error. Did anyone solve it so far?

Seems i have similar issues when im trying to install any other package:/

Thnx in advance :)

Heimdal

Same Problem after upgrading to 2.1.3 amd64. Squid stops accepting connections and crashes shortly after with nothing in the log files indicating what might be the culprit. Darkstats, Arpwatch, and my ntop packages have also started to stop unexpectedly. Squid3+SquidGuard run smooth for about 24 hours and this problem occurs. I only cache large updates, and YouTube viral videos; otherwise, Squid for my environment is there to monitor usage and restrict sites. This setup is on edge appliance with three 1GB WANs that host about 2000+ public connections. It saves me around 1TB of traffic a month. When it goes down, my day does not go well. Uninstalled for now, would appreciate anyone advice what might the cause of this; furthermore, if anyone has had luck 2.1.3 + Squid-devel package on amd64.

edanpedragosa

I am still experiencing the same problem.

I've got the time last week to reinstall pfsense amd-64 and the same problem exists.

So my solution right now is to reboot pfsense everyday using CRON @ 1 am. That way pfsense will be alive the next working day.

I'm suspecting one of the packages installed is messing it up at 12 midnight so I do a cron to reboot the machine @ 1am daily.

To heimdal, you can install the CRON package then add a cron task:

0 1 * * * root /sbin/reboot

I hope the fix will be released soon.

pubmsu

Same issue here - squid stops working every now and then randomly, with the same log entries as shared by member below: Squid 3.1.20 pkg 2.0.7 on pfSense 2.1.3

@edanpedragosa:

Since upgrading, I noticed that Squid and Squidguard stops after a day.

It will work the whole day after I restarted the services but the next day, it's not working again. I then need to restart the services again then it will work for the day then stops again the next day and so on….

ha11oga11o

Guys, i thinki solved mine issue…

I had problems installing packages on new builds... only if SNORT is on.

So, i simply disable Snort while installing and all is fine.

Hope someone will find it useful.

edanpedragosa

Thanks to marcelloc!

The latest update seems to have fixed the problem of squid stopping at midnight and never restarted properly.

My pfsense machine has now been up for 5 days and counting.

zang3tsu

I'm getting the error as described in this thread: http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/201406/0117.html with this version: 3.3.10 pkg 2.2.6 on pfSense 2.1.4-RELEASE (amd64).

According to the thread, it could be fixed with the 3.3.11 version. Any chance of getting an update to that version? Thanks.

Sample error log:

2014/06/27 00:42:40 kid1|  parse error while reading template file: /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/errors/en/error-details.txt
2014/06/27 00:42:40 kid1| Unable to load default error language files. Reset to backups.
2014/06/27 00:42:40 kid1|  parse error while reading template file: /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/errors/templates/error-details.txt
2014/06/27 00:42:40 kid1| WARNING: failed to find or read error text file error-details.txt

Cino

i get the same error on but squid is running for me with no other issues. I am running i386 tho

zang3tsu

I actually found this while fixing another issue. The issue is fixed now and squid is running even with the error.

Cino

was the fix copying over some files? I've been meaning to switch over to amd64 but haven't since other installs have had issues with squid and dansguardian

zang3tsu

Uh no. It's not actually fixed per the above error message. I just had an issue with my settings in the reverse proxy and that issue is fixed now. Otherwise, squid is running good with squidGuard. I think I tried dansguardian before but SSL filtering doesn't seem to work so I just opted for squidGuard.

mhab12

I was getting the previously discussed msgget failed error and the squid service would not stay running. The issue only appeared about a week after installing lightsquid, probably when the files were set to update. I uninstalled lightsquid but that didn't seem to help. I cleared the squid cache but that didn't seem to help. The only fix I found was to reboot the box after removing lightsquid and now everything is up and running smoothly.

DavidMcQueenLPS

Recently we install the following:

pfSense 2.1.5 VM
Squid3dev 3.3.10 pkg 2.2.6
Diladele 3.3.0.E807

We are running in transparent mode with HTTPS bumping.

Lately we have been getting icap errors:

The message is coming from Squid:

ICAP protocol error.
The system returned: [No Error]

Is there anywhere I can look for more detail?

Also, while looking in the /var/squid/logs/cache.log I have been seeing many:

parse error while reading template file: /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/etc/squid/errors/templates/error-details.txt
WARNING: failed to find or read error text file error-details.txt

This file does exist:

-r–r--r-- 1 proxy proxy 7151 Nov 26 2013 error-details.txt

eldersouza

Hi guys,

I configured pfSync + CARP and both server are running ok. But Squid "Sync to configured system backup server" does not work. I'm getting this message in system logs

php: /pkg_edit.php: [squid] xmlrpc sync is enabled but there is no system backup hosts to push squid config.

But, if I change this configuration to "Sync to hosts defined below" and put IP address from backup server everything works fine.

This is a bug or I forgot some configuration?

Thanks

edanpedragosa

Hi!

With HTTPS/SSL interception enabled, some desktop apps like google drive does not work.

Any easy workaround for this?

Thanks!

dooldeniya

Hello,

I am attempting to install squid3 from the packages menu and getting the following error:
pfsense version: 2.2-BETA (amd64) built on Tue Oct 21 13:21:00 CDT 2014 FreeBSD 10.1-RC2

Installation of squid3 FAILED!

Beginning package installation for squid3 .
Downloading package configuration file… done.
Saving updated package information... done.
Downloading squid3 and its dependencies...
Checking for package installation...
Downloading https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/squid-3.1.22_1-amd64.pbi ... could not download from there or https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All//squid-3.1.22_1-amd64.pbi.
of squid-3.1.22_1-amd64 failed!

Installation aborted.Removing package...
Starting package deletion for squid-3.1.22_1-amd64...done.
Removing squid3 components...
Tabs items... done.
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Loading package instructions...
Include file squid.inc could not be found for inclusion.
Deinstall commands...
Not executing custom deinstall hook because an include is missing.
Removing package instructions...done.
Auxiliary files... done.
Package XML... done.
Configuration... done.
done.
Failed to install package.

Installation halted.

Is this not available on 2.2 as a pbi? Do I need to install manually via CLI?

edanpedragosa

Hi!

Is there a way to revert back to 3.3.10 pkg 2.2.6 from the current 3.3.10 pkg 2.2.8?

Thanks!

finalcut

why do you want to revert back ,, i'm about to update ?