Can't start squidGuard

digifant

Rebuilding the DB only lasts till a reboot.

kudamuda

I am facing the same problem too.
Is there away to get the blacklist autorebuild & the squidguard will run automatically after a reboot?

thanks!

kudamuda

I think I found a workaround. I am using amd64 pfsense 2.2.2

goto the blacklist configuration tab for squidGuard, click download.
- the system will update & reconfigure the blacklist.
you shall find a script file at /tmp/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh
copy this sh file to somewhere else, eg. /usr/local/bin/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh
edit the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh to include the above script.

therefore, after a reboot, the system would download a fresh blacklist & do the neccessary configuration before start the squid. ;)

tq

TheBlueRaja

@kudamuda:

I think I found a workaround. I am using amd64 pfsense 2.2.2

goto the blacklist configuration tab for squidGuard, click download.
- the system will update & reconfigure the blacklist.

you shall find a script file at /tmp/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh

copy this sh file to somewhere else, eg. /usr/local/bin/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh

edit the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh to include the above script.

therefore, after a reboot, the system would download a fresh blacklist & do the neccessary configuration before start the squid. ;)

tq

Can you tell me how you managed this? I tried to do this as you say however 2 things are unclear:-

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh appears to be overwritten every reboot which means any changes made are overwritten.
Where in the script did you place it? I thought this would suffice but cant test due to 1)

rc_start() {
        if [ -z "`ps auxw | grep "[s]quid -D"|awk '{print $2}'`" ];then
        /usr/pbi/squid-amd64/sbin/squid -D
        /usr/local/bin/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh
fi

ismaelnoble

I managed to produce a working system by just:

goto the blacklist configuration tab for squidGuard, click download.
- the system will update & reconfigure the blacklist.
you shall find a script file at /tmp/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh
copy this sh file to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

granted that i did build on kudamuda's work which was spot on. i am rather worried about the initial error though, this hack is only so as to continue moving along with my setup. once i find some time ill look further into the error, from the logs i can tell that it has something to do with squidGuard losing its DB on boot… ;)

noor

@kudamuda:

I think I found a workaround. I am using amd64 pfsense 2.2.2

goto the blacklist configuration tab for squidGuard, click download.
- the system will update & reconfigure the blacklist.

you shall find a script file at /tmp/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh

copy this sh file to somewhere else, eg. /usr/local/bin/squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh

edit the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh to include the above script.

therefore, after a reboot, the system would download a fresh blacklist & do the neccessary configuration before start the squid. ;)

tq

Dear Expert,

I am trying to follow the instructions which need your help.

1- I have Copied the squidGuard_blacklist_update.sh from the path /tmp
But i unable to understand the above steps no 4 can you guide me in detail how i can follow the above step no 4 need your help in detail.

thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Noor Uz Zaman

chidgear

Hi!
I did this:
After downloading a blacklist from shallalist.de , create a target Category (call it as you want) add a least one domain and start Squidguard with the apply button (if it hasn't started yet) According to certain posts regarding to the Squidguar manual, this is a necesary condition to use blacklists and another configurations. In my particular case, I've created a target category called "White_list" on which I've added the sites contained in the default blacklist but that I wish to access anytime (for example, wikipedia.org, wikimedia.org and pfsense.org).

after doing this, I can reboot the server, an the SquidGuard service boots automatically after one minute.

Try it and, if it works for you, come back and tell us!

kot

@chidgear:

Hi!
I did this:
After downloading a blacklist from shallalist.de , create a target Category (call it as you want) add a least one domain and start Squidguard with the apply button (if it hasn't started yet) According to certain posts regarding to the Squidguar manual, this is a necesary condition to use blacklists and another configurations. In my particular case, I've created a target category called "White_list" on which I've added the sites contained in the default blacklist but that I wish to access anytime (for example, wikipedia.org, wikimedia.org and pfsense.org).

after doing this, I can reboot the server, an the SquidGuard service boots automatically after one minute.

Try it and, if it works for you, come back and tell us!

Thanx. It really works.

knottolf

You can try the following if you have / had a line similar to this during install (and it's not the lack of blacklist update!):
"Warning: file_put_contents(/usr/pbi/squidguard-amd64/etc/squidGuard/squidguard_conf.xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc on line 1032"

Open the file '/usr/local/pkg/squidguard_configurator.inc'

Find the line:
define('SQUIDGUARD_WORKDIR', SQUIDGUARD_LOCALBASE . '/etc/squidGuard');

Change it to:
define('SQUIDGUARD_WORKDIR', SQUIDGUARD_LOCALBASE . '/local/etc/squidGuard');

Worked for me!

jerekyox

I have tried ismaelnoble's approach. Working for me so far.

jmccoy555

Did the trick for me to….. this has been driving me mad!!!!

Thanks.

@chidgear:

Hi!
I did this:
After downloading a blacklist from shallalist.de , create a target Category (call it as you want) add a least one domain and start Squidguard with the apply button (if it hasn't started yet) According to certain posts regarding to the Squidguar manual, this is a necesary condition to use blacklists and another configurations. In my particular case, I've created a target category called "White_list" on which I've added the sites contained in the default blacklist but that I wish to access anytime (for example, wikipedia.org, wikimedia.org and pfsense.org).

after doing this, I can reboot the server, an the SquidGuard service boots automatically after one minute.

Try it and, if it works for you, come back and tell us!