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    Dansguardian issues on 2.1 (service status and others)

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    • rcfaR
      rcfa
      last edited by

      Dansguardian installs, but it keeps complaining about a missing AV database, and that it's going to run freshclam due to that. Of course, that doesn't seem to succeed, otherwise, I wouldn't get that message over and over, and instead would get it once, then the database would get downloaded, and that would be that.

      Not sure if this is a 2.1 issue, or a general problem with the Dansguardian package.

      Also, even though enabled, it never shows as active in the Dashboard's Services Status section, but obviously it must be doing something, otherwise it wouldn't complain about the lack of the AV database…

      So something is certainly still funky with that package.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        OK, I think there is already a thread for Dansguardian on 2.1 out there, if not, start a fresh one for that, that'll need the maintainer to fix it.

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        • rcfaR
          rcfa
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          ~~I entered a fake user/system on the configuration page, and selected the interface to listen on.

          There's no other "enable/disable" checkmark, so I assume that should activate things.
          On the dashboard, it shows up as inactive.
          Manually starting the service from the Dashboard doesn't change anything.~~

          Not sure how this got into this thread, this section is about widentd, not Dansguardian.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            I split this off into its own thread, hopefully the maintainer will spot it and find a fix for you.

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              Cino
              last edited by

              @rcfa:

              I entered a fake user/system on the configuration page, and selected the interface to listen on.

              There's no other "enable/disable" checkmark, so I assume that should activate things.
              On the dashboard, it shows up as inactive.
              Manually starting the service from the Dashboard doesn't change anything.

              what do you mean by user/system? I dont have AV enabled, but Dansguardian is enabled and running. My dashboard and services show that they are running.. What happens if you disable AV?

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              • rcfaR
                rcfa
                last edited by

                Note: that one paragraph wasn't about Dansguardian, no idea how it got into this thread, it's about widentd.

                Still, the rest applies. Also with AV disabled, Dansguardian won't start. The syslog shows these:

                Jun 25 17:26:38 dansguardian[12003]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                Jun 25 17:26:23 dansguardian[29500]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                Jun 25 17:26:22 php: /pkg_edit.php: Starting Dansguardian

                Does this ring a bell?

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                • marcellocM
                  marcelloc
                  last edited by

                  Try to start it on console or run dansguardian in foreground.

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                  • rcfaR
                    rcfa
                    last edited by

                    @marcelloc:

                    Try to start it on console or run dansguardian in foreground.

                    This is all I get:

                    root(2): dansguardian
                    std::bad_alloc
                    Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                    root(3):

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                    • rcfaR
                      rcfa
                      last edited by

                      Someone might have hit the reason of this problem:

                      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50688.msg271304.html#msg271304

                      Incompatible pcre versions required by snort vs. dansguardian.

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                        Cino
                        last edited by

                        @rcfa:

                        Someone might have hit the reason of this problem:

                        http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50688.msg271304.html#msg271304

                        Incompatible pcre versions required by snort vs. dansguardian.

                        I have them both running on my 2.1 box.. Snort was re-installed last

                        found the issue with clamav…
                        directories and permissions are not setup when the package is install

                        when manually running freshclam

                        
                        ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
                        ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
                        ERROR: Can't change dir to /var/db/clamav
                        
                        

                        I manually added the folders and started dansguardian.. its in the process of running freshclam right now.. For now I gave the folders 777 permission root/wheel.. Think it needs to be user/group clamav but figured you can't go wrong with 777.

                        another issue is the linking of files between /usr/local/etc/dansguardian and /usr/pbi/dansguardian-i386/etc/dansguardian

                        Also have to create folder /var/run/clamav but the package isn't starting clamd. I am able to manually start it via command line tho

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          for the service status, what does this show:

                          ps uxawww | grep -i dansguardian

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                          • rcfaR
                            rcfa
                            last edited by

                            @jimp:

                            for the service status, what does this show:

                            ps uxawww | grep -i dansguardian

                            At this point, here, nothing, because it's not running…
                            ...I guess something must try to launch it once or multiple times after a reboot or settings change => the messages
                            ...but then I guess it dies and/or gives up, because there's no running process later on.

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                              Cino
                              last edited by

                              @rcfa:

                              @jimp:

                              for the service status, what does this show:

                              ps uxawww | grep -i dansguardian

                              At this point, here, nothing, because it's not running…
                              ...I guess something must try to launch it once or multiple times after a reboot or settings change => the messages
                              ...but then I guess it dies and/or gives up, because there's no running process later on.

                              anything in your log? A while back on 2.0.1, it would die because squid wasn't running or was slow to start.. But that was corrected

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                              • rcfaR
                                rcfa
                                last edited by

                                @Cino:

                                anything in your log? A while back on 2.0.1, it would die because squid wasn't running or was slow to start.. But that was corrected

                                Nothing beyond what I had posted before below:
                                @rcfa:

                                The syslog shows these:

                                Jun 25 17:26:38 dansguardian[12003]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                                Jun 25 17:26:23 dansguardian[29500]: Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files
                                Jun 25 17:26:22 php: /pkg_edit.php: Starting Dansguardian

                                Does this ring a bell?

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                                • M
                                  Macom2007
                                  last edited by

                                  Dansguardian does not start because a problem with the log file path (dansguardian missing in that path name). See console output :

                                  Error opening/creating log file. (check ownership and access rights).
                                  I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log//access.log

                                  Any ideas ?

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

                                    @Macom2007:

                                    I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log//access.log

                                    check and save all package gui tabs, this error shows a missing dansguardian dir on log file

                                    /var/log//access.log should be /var/log/dansguardian/access.log

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                                      Macom2007
                                      last edited by

                                      Thx for your reply.

                                      I saved every gui tab. No luck so var. Why is DG trying to write to /var/log//access.log. I my dansguardian.conf the log path is /var/log/dansguardian/ ?

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        @Macom2007:

                                        Why is DG trying to write to /var/log//access.log?

                                        Not sure. I have dansguardian working on 2.1 but I'll check it this week (If I have time  :))

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                                          Macom2007
                                          last edited by

                                          @Macom2007:

                                          Dansguardian does not start because a problem with the log file path (dansguardian missing in that path name). See console output :

                                          Error opening/creating log file. (check ownership and access rights).
                                          I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log//access.log

                                          Any ideas ?

                                          Any news on this ?

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                                          • marcellocM
                                            marcelloc
                                            last edited by

                                            Current package version has 2.1 folder check but pbi package was built with pcre8.3.

                                            This pcre version breaks dansguardian.

                                            You can try on your install, but I'm not sure if it  will work.

                                            /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dansguardian.sh start

                                            kern.ipc.somaxconn: 16384 -> 16384
                                            kern.maxfiles: 131072 -> 131072
                                            kern.maxfilesperproc: 104856 -> 104856
                                            kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc: 4096 -> 4096
                                            Starting dansguardian.
                                            std::bad_alloc <= Pcre issue
                                            Error parsing the dansguardian.conf file or other DansGuardian configuration files

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