Unofficial E2guardian package for pfSense

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.

Sei Pine

@ucribrahim thanks! i'll try to visit your blog post later.

pfsensation

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

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?

You can run it along with Squid without problems but I don't recommend using Squid Guard. It's a broken mess and one of the main reasons I started looking at E2 Guardian instead.

pfBlockerNG runs well alongside E2 Guardian. I'm running it myself and I've had no problems.

Sei Pine

@pfsensation so true, squidguard is making my life harder </3

i'll try to run it alongside pfblockerNG. i'll feed back later

pfsensation

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

@pfsensation so true, squidguard is making my life harder </3

i'll try to run it alongside pfblockerNG. i'll feed back later

Ditch SquidGuard. It's not worth the effort or hassle.

With E2 Guardian you have a lot more flexibility, I have different users in different groups with different levels of restrictions. It's awesome!

Filtering via E2 Guardian is simple, create an ACL and block all the categories you don't want. Then edit a group you want to apply the ACL to. Save then Apply. That's all. Let me know if you need any help, I'll try my best. There's more advanced level stuff too like phrase filtering and enforcing YouTube restricted mode / Google safe search that I also apply on my network.

Sei Pine

@pfsensation thanks! and yes i'm gonna ditch squidguard after seeing e2guard was able to properly display an error message on a blocked https website while squidguard just display some kind of ssl error omegelul.