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    Squid, SquidGuard, Lightsquid status on 2.3

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.3-RC Snapshot Feedback and Issues - ARCHIVED
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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      And if you're already on 2.3, you can use the command from that commit to clean up manually:

      find / -type l -lname '/usr/pbi/*' -delete
      

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        maverick_slo
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        And I was just going to ask this :)

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          whitexp
          last edited by

          @jimp:

          I fixed some more issues in squid today and have a few notes for those who may be upgrading from 2.2.x or earlier to 2.3 and having problems:

          1. Make sure that the most current version of the squid package is loaded (>= 0.4.12)

          2. Clean up leftover PBI messes:

          find / -type l -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l | egrep '(squid|perl|pbi)'
          

          Remove any symlinks still pointing to PBI dirs, especially things like perl, lightsquid, perl5, etc.

          For example:

          lrwxr-xr-x  1 root   wheel  39 May  7  2015 /usr/bin/perl -> /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/local/bin/perl
          lrwxr-xr-x  1 root   wheel  45 May  7  2015 /usr/local/etc/lightsquid -> /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/local/etc/lightsquid
          lrwxr-xr-x  1 root   wheel  40 May  7  2015 /usr/local/lib/perl5 -> /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/local/lib/perl5
          lrwxr-xr-x  1 root   wheel  45 Nov  5 10:32 /usr/local/www/lightsquid -> /usr/pbi/lightsquid-i386/local/www/lightsquid
          

          3. Blow away the cache:

          mv /var/squid/cache /var/squid/cache.old
          squid -z
          rm -rf /var/squid/cache.old
          
          
          /pkg_edit.php: The command '/usr/local/sbin/squid -z -f /usr/local/etc/squid/squid.conf' returned exit code '1', the output was 'FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'squid' Squid Cache (Version 3.5.12): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.018 seconds = 0.018 user + 0.000 sys Maximum Resident Size: 50000 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0'
          
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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            That's a new one. Uninstall the package and install it again. The pkg code adds that user on install, or it's supposed to anyhow

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              brianc69
              last edited by

              It mostly worked for me. I was able to install freeradius but squid returned an error. Did you catch it in my other post?

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                whitexp
                last edited by

                @jimp:

                That's a new one. Uninstall the package and install it again. The pkg code adds that user on install, or it's supposed to anyhow

                work

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                  whitexp
                  last edited by

                  squidguard error warning on instalation

                  >>> Installing pfSense-pkg-squidGuard... 
                  Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
                  pfSense-core repository is up-to-date.
                  Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
                  pfSense repository is up-to-date.
                  All repositories are up-to-date.
                  The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
                  
                  New packages to be INSTALLED:
                  	pfSense-pkg-squidGuard: 1.12 [pfSense]
                  	squidGuard: 1.4_15 [pfSense]
                  	db5: 5.3.28_3 [pfSense]
                  
                  The process will require 15 MiB more space.
                  1 MiB to be downloaded.
                  Fetching pfSense-pkg-squidGuard-1.12.txz: ..... done
                  Fetching squidGuard-1.4_15.txz: .... done
                  Fetching db5-5.3.28_3.txz: .......... done
                  Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
                  [1/3] Installing db5-5.3.28_3...
                  [1/3] Extracting db5-5.3.28_3: .......... done
                  [2/3] Installing squidGuard-1.4_15...
                  [2/3] Extracting squidGuard-1.4_15: ..... done
                  [3/3] Installing pfSense-pkg-squidGuard-1.12...
                  [3/3] Extracting pfSense-pkg-squidGuard-1.12: .......... done
                  Saving updated package information...
                  done.
                  Loading package configuration... done.
                  Configuring package components...
                  Loading package instructions...
                  
                  Warning: file_put_contents(/usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidguard_conf.xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc on line 1045
                  
                  Call Stack:
                      0.0004     228704   1\. {main}() /etc/rc.packages:0
                      0.1839   10561792   2\. install_package_xml() /etc/rc.packages:77
                      0.4223   11047992   3\. require_once('/usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc') /etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc:702
                      0.4543   12883648   4\. convert_pfxml_to_sgxml() /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc:100
                      0.4574   12913928   5\. file_put_contents() /usr/local/pkg/squidguard.inc:1045
                  
                  Custom commands...
                  Executing custom_php_install_command()...done.
                  Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
                  Menu items... done.
                  Services... done.
                  Writing configuration... done.
                  Please visit Services - SquidGuard Proxy Filter - Target Categories and set up at least one category there before enabling SquidGuard. See https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=94312.0 for details.Message from squidGuard-1.4_15:
                  ===================================================================
                   In order to activate squidGuard you have to edit squid.conf
                   To the contain "url_rewrite_program /usr/local/bin/squidGuard"
                   and create a configuration file for squidGuard.
                  
                   Sample blacklists have been installed in /usr/local/share/examples/squidGuard.
                  
                   A sample configuration file has beeen installed in
                   /usr/local/etc/squid/squidGuard.conf.sample.
                  
                   You need to edit the configuration and compile the blacklist
                   you choose to use with:
                   squidGuard -d -C all
                  
                   Please bear in mind that this is just a sample configuration file
                   and for any real world usage you need to download or create your
                   own updated blacklists and create your own configuration file.
                  
                   Check documentation here:
                  
                   http://www.squidguard.org/Doc/
                  
                   To activate the changes do a /usr/local/sbin/squid -k reconfigure
                  ===================================================================
                  Message from pfSense-pkg-squidGuard-1.12:
                  Please visit Services - SquidGuard Proxy Filter - Target Categories and set up at least one category there before enabling SquidGuard. See https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=94312.0 for details.
                  >>> Cleaning up cache... done.
                  Success
                  
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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    @whitexp:

                    squidguard error warning on instalation

                    I'll push a fix for that, looks easy enough to correct.

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                      whitexp
                      last edited by

                      error on lightsquid

                      Jan 21 16:31:22	php-fpm	28398	/rc.start_packages: [lightsquid] Error: Could not load default '/usr/local/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg.dist' configuration file.
                      Jan 21 16:31:22	php-fpm	28398	/rc.start_packages: [lightsquid] Error: Could not create '/usr/local/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg' configuration file.
                      Jan 21 16:31:22	php-fpm	28398	/rc.start_packages: [lightsquid] Removing old cronjobs...
                      
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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Lightsquid is broken in many ways (see the earlier posts in the thread) – no hope of it working util we fix up nginx for CGI.

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                          Pakken
                          last edited by

                          Fired up a test vm with a clean 2.3 install, squid appears to be working as long as I disable clamav and c-icap.
                          I seriously lack time lately, after a (really) quick check it doesn't seem to build the .sock file and it probably misses something else.
                          I think you guys are well-aware of it but I'll be happy to provide more info as soon as I can if needed.

                          Thank you once again for the awesome job you keep doing.
                          See ya!

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            We've made no attempt to test or work on clamav or c-icap, just the base functions of the forward proxy currently.

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                              seanelias
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                              When ever i turn on Transparent HTTP Proxy  i couldn't browse any website , but there is no problem if i use explicit  proxy  .

                              Any one have the same issue ???

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                                brianc69
                                last edited by

                                I can't use transparent or adding it to my system direct. They both fail. Looks like a few of us having the problem but no cause or solution yet to my knowledge.

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                                  brianc69
                                  last edited by

                                  Clean install, restore configs, problem remains.

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                                    Valex
                                    last edited by

                                    @jimp:

                                    Lightsquid is broken in many ways (see the earlier posts in the thread) – no hope of it working util we fix up nginx for CGI.

                                    @jimp:

                                    We've made no attempt to test or work on clamav or c-icap, just the base functions of the forward proxy currently.

                                    What does this mean? It's fixed in 2.3 final right?

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                                      rubinho
                                      last edited by

                                      @seanelias:

                                      When ever i turn on Transparent HTTP Proxy  i couldn't browse any website , but there is no problem if i use explicit  proxy  .

                                      Any one have the same issue ???

                                      I can confirm that, the transparent proxy does not work

                                      [Pfsense 2.4] Supermicro A1SRI-2558F@Atom C2558 4Gb RAM
                                      [Pfsense 2.4] Jetway NF9D@Atom D2550 + AD3INLAN-G Expansioncard  (3x Intel 82541PI Gigabit Controller)

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                                      • jimpJ
                                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        @Valex:

                                        @jimp:

                                        Lightsquid is broken in many ways (see the earlier posts in the thread) – no hope of it working util we fix up nginx for CGI.

                                        @jimp:

                                        We've made no attempt to test or work on clamav or c-icap, just the base functions of the forward proxy currently.

                                        What does this mean? It's fixed in 2.3 final right?

                                        The package version has no relation to 2.3 "final", it could be changed before or after release. Hopefully, before. It just means it isn't working or isn't tested now. The functions I stated we didn't work on may work fine, we just haven't tested them because they're not functions of squid we intend to "officially" support at this time.

                                        Others are free to test and submit fixes as needed if they want, though.

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                                          UltramaticOrange
                                          last edited by

                                          Reading threads from older versions of pfSense, it sounds like this is a known issue, but I wanted to report that I am also having issues with the transparent proxy and getting "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE" on Chrome. However, my observation has been that everything works fine when the DNS response is still hanging around from the last time I visited the page (read: squid was off). To me, this might suggest that Squid is either having a hard time talking to the dns server (isn't pointed a the local machine/general DNS settings), squid isn't giving dns enough time to respond (timeout setting too short), or there's some conflicting setting between squid and dns.

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                                            cmb
                                            last edited by

                                            There's a workaround for the transparent proxy issue in https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/5869

                                            chgrp squid /dev/pf
                                            

                                            Proper fix to come.

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