Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense

pfsensation

@asterix said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@pfsensation said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@asterix said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@pfsensation said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@kenpachizaraki said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@pfsensation said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@marcelloc I had a look, it looks like e2guardian isn't defined in /etc/inc/service-utils.inc. I attempted to manually define it but wasn't too sure of the parameters. Can you shed some light?

@pfsensation is this resolve already? I will be deploying e2g tomorrow i dont want to have issue on pfsense crashing

On your production system, don't upgrade to 2.4.4 yet. I still haven't been able to resolve that log rotation issue. For me it just crashes E2 Guardian once a day and it restarts itself. Barely even notice it but nevertheless its still an issue.

Going to have to wait for @marcelloc to have a look at this. I tried some fixes but my knowledge of the inner workings of pfsense packages isn't great.

It’s frustrating now. I tried a clean install but still have the issue with log rotation crash. No internet till I do a full reboot. Any response from @marcelloc ?

For me sure E2 Guardian crashes for a second, but it's never so bad that my entire Internet dies until I reboot. Must be something config related, my block page is hosted separately on another nginx instance using the WPAD package. Maybe that's it?

I've already let Marcello know about the issue, and I'm sure he knows as well from his own systems. For the time being, I am log rotating using Cron, yeah it's a bit of a pain. But at the end of the day, we have to realise that all the people who contribute to E2 Guardian, including myself do it in our spare time. Sometimes life gets in the way, sometimes work gets in the way. But things will be back to normal again, we just need to be patient.

EDIT: Here's the simple command I'm using to literally wipe the access.log roughly every 8 hours (obviously scale this to meet your needs):
echo -n "" > /var/log/e2guardian/access.log

My issue is that e2 crashes and recovers during the log rotation but for some reason blocks all internet till I reboot it. The log rotation has been sketchy and I can't pin point the exact time. Sometimes e2 crashes in the middle of the day and my family is without internet till the time I come back home and reboot the VM instance.

Your machine is definitely failing more miserably. Have you checked to make are that you don't have other packages using the port 80/443? Such as pfblocker and the Web interface? A while back on very first versions of E2 Guardian on pfSense I used to get entire system crashes. After I sorted the things above, it's been stable as a rock.

asterix

@pfsensation I turned off logging completely and checked under Cron jobs and the log rotation script was removed onces I disabled logging. So far so good. 2 days with no issues.

Speaking for logging, is there a way to show the logs in graphs.. like which ip/subnet made what requests which were denied .. especially the denied ones.

mococanet

hey guys, i'm using pfsense 2.4.4 + e2guardian-v5 but every day at midnight a crash system is reported:

PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /etc/inc/service-utils.inc, Line: 668, Message: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function service_control_stop(), 1 passed in /usr/local/www/e2guardian_logrotate.php on line 42 and exactly 2 expected in /etc/inc/service-utils.inc:668
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/e2guardian_logrotate.php(42): service_control_stop('e2guardian')
#1 {main}

I've seen some people with the same problems, has anyone managed to solve it?
thank you

pfsensation

@mococanet said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

hey guys, i'm using pfsense 2.4.4 + e2guardian-v5 but every day at midnight a crash system is reported:

PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /etc/inc/service-utils.inc, Line: 668, Message: Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function service_control_stop(), 1 passed in /usr/local/www/e2guardian_logrotate.php on line 42 and exactly 2 expected in /etc/inc/service-utils.inc:668
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/e2guardian_logrotate.php(42): service_control_stop('e2guardian')
#1 {main}

I've seen some people with the same problems, has anyone managed to solve it?
thank you

For the time being, just turn off log rotation under reporting. The script has issues on 2.4.4.

mococanet

@pfsensation said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

For the time being, just turn off log rotation under reporting. The script has issues on 2.4.4.

thank you @pfsensation i'll do that. cheers!

ucribrahim

Hi,

As you might know, e2guardian "Log Rotation" feature doesn't work and it makes service crash if this feature enabled. I just wrote a shell script to solve this problem for now.

This shell script backup the e2guardian "access.log" file with tar command and then clean up inside of the file. Log rotation simply doing kind of this thing. Until the "log rotation" feature gets fixed, this option can be used.

Instructions

1. step : Disable "Log Rotation" feature under "Report and Log" menu and then Save it.

2. step : SSH to your pfsense and then go to /root directory and create necessary file. Also give executable permission.

Commands:

cd /root/
touch logrotate.sh
chmod u+x logrotate.sh

3. step : Edit the file and copy/paste the code. Do not forget to Save and exit.

#!/bin/sh

# Get current date.
date=$(date "+%Y%m%d-%H:%M")

# Where are the log files in? (directory)
directory="/var/log/e2guardian"

# Log files name 
file1name="access.log"

# The directory where the log files (tar.gz) are going to be keep in.
backup_directory="/var/log/e2guardian/backups"

# If backup directory doesn't exists, then create. If already created then go on.

if [ ! -d $backup_directory ]; then
        mkdir $backup_directory
        echo "----------------------------------------------"
        echo "$backup_directory has been created!"
        echo "----------------------------------------------"
fi

# Log rotate process(1).

cd $directory
PWD=$(pwd)

if [ $PWD/ = $directory/ ]; then
        [ ! -f $file1name ] && { echo "Opps! The file $file1name could not found! Check $directory directory!"; exit 1; }
        tar cvfz ${backup_directory}/${file1name}.${date}.tar.gz $file1name 2> /tmp/error.log
        if [ $? -ne 0 ]
        then
        echo "An error occurred while making a backup, see /tmp/error.log file."
        exit 3
        fi
        cat /dev/null > $file1name
        echo "$file1name has been cleaned! Date: $date. You can find backed up files in $backup_directory"
        rm /tmp/error.log
fi

exit 0

4. step : Try to run the shell script and see the result. If you get error, let me know.

sh /root/logrotate.sh

Output:
----------------------------------------------
/var/log/e2guardian/backups has been created!
----------------------------------------------
access.log has been cleaned! Date: 20181028-22:20. You can find backed up files in /var/log/e2guardian/backups

Add Crontab

You also need to write crontab on pfsense to make this script works end of the day everyday. Or you can configure the date and time as you wish.

Install "cron" package first.

Example crontab.

Minute: 30
Hour: 23
Day of the Month : *
Month of the Year : *
Day of the Week : *
User : root
Command : sh /root/logrotate.sh

Do not forget to restart cron service.

service cron onerestart

That's all for now.)
My github account: https://github.com/lifeoverlinux

pfsensation

New update for E2 Guardian is pushed out to repo:

Binaries updated to latest
Log rotation error fix
I also pushed out some fixes for Neterror (missing files)

** You may need to manually download the black list through the blacklist tab after updating if you get a dir error.

ravegen

@pfsensation

after updating the e2guardian package, I am having issues on the system logs that says on the screenshot.

I am using Content Scanner clamdscan. I have already up to date freshclam. But if my clamdscan content scanner is selected, e2guardian wont start but if not selected, e2guardian starts.

How do you solve that error ?

Sei Pine

Hello, i followed the instructions on the first post on how to make e2guardian pop out on system > packages but it seems it doesn't work. am i doing something wrong ?

i also did try patching System > Patches provided by the thread owner, still no e2guardian on packages.

pfsensation

@ravegen said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@pfsensation

after updating the e2guardian package, I am having issues on the system logs that says on the screenshot.

I am using Content Scanner clamdscan. I have already up to date freshclam. But if my clamdscan content scanner is selected, e2guardian wont start but if not selected, e2guardian starts.

How do you solve that error ?

The AV isn't something I have tested or used yet as I find Clam's signatures not very good. Did you attempt a reinstall? According to the errors there are some configs missing.

pfsensation

@sei-pine said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

Hello, i followed the instructions on the first post on how to make e2guardian pop out on system > packages but it seems it doesn't work. am i doing something wrong ?

i also did try patching System > Patches provided by the thread owner, still no e2guardian on packages.

You've most likely not applied the patch correctly. From 2.4.4 pfSense by default hides any packages that aren't official.

Sei Pine

@pfsensation i did applied the patch provided on github. can you pls help me on how to patch it correctly ?

ucribrahim

@sei-pine Well, let me help you. @pfsensation helped me how to do that, when I was trying to do this patch thing. Now I help you then you'll help someone else.)

Install "patch" package from package manager.
System > Patches > click "Add New Patch" button.
Description: e2guardian patch
URL/Commit ID: Leave empty
Patch Contents: Copy/Paste all codes from here
Path Strip Count: 1
Base Directory: /
Ignore Whitespace: Clicked
Auto Apply: Clicked
Save and then click "Apply" button.

That's all for now. Now go to shell and add repo of e2guardian by following command.

fetch -q -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/Unofficial.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/master/Unofficial.24.conf

Go to Package Manager and try to search e2guardian. If you don't see any package reboot system.

It's working!

Sei Pine

@ucribrahim hello! thanks for the reply, but the patch just doesn't work on me. i manually applied the given patch code ($repo_param = "";) in pkg-util.inc on line 388, saved then e2guardian popped out on System > Packages.

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gonna try it out on my test lab when i got time, thanks again.

pfsensation

@ucribrahim Thanks for helping a fellow user! I am actually at work, therefore couldn't reply earlier.

@Sei-Pine Sometimes when the unofficial repo is added, you need to install any package such as Cron for E2Guardian to show up. It's just how the GUI works on pfSense. I found that installing a package or uninstalling one forces the GUI to refresh. That may have been it, other than that the patch works perfectly. I've applied it to many virtual pfSense installs and all went fine.

Sei Pine

@pfsensation hi! thanks for the info. i'll try that next time on my other vm

ravegen

@pfsensation said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@ravegen said in Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense:

@pfsensation

after updating the e2guardian package, I am having issues on the system logs that says on the screenshot.

I am using Content Scanner clamdscan. I have already up to date freshclam. But if my clamdscan content scanner is selected, e2guardian wont start but if not selected, e2guardian starts.

How do you solve that error ?

The AV isn't something I have tested or used yet as I find Clam's signatures not very good. Did you attempt a reinstall? According to the errors there are some configs missing.

clamav content scanner was made working by Marcelloc around 3 or 4 months ago when I requested it from him but after this rotate log fix, it is not working now.
Regardless where the clam's signatures are very good or not but it somehow works its purpose thus somewhat useful. I hope you could fix it or we could ask Marcelloc to fix it back again.

ravegen

@marcelloc ,

The clamav content scanner is not working again after there was a fix update for the rotate log.

Can you kindly fix this error again or can you tell us what to do to fix this error if we can do it ourselves.

Thanks

Sei Pine

hi guys! im trying out to configure e2guardian, but first, i wanna know do's and don't's

is it ok to run along side squid + squidguard ?
is it ok to run with pfblockerNG?

ucribrahim

@sei-pine I wrote a blog post about configure e2guardian. Here is the blog post linked here.

It is okay to run without squid + squidGuard. Don't install both.

It is okay to run with pfBlockerng.