Squidguard… problems and questions

[mwdiers]

I just did a clean pfSense install last night, and managed to get squidGuard running. However, this was very difficult. I had many of the same problems noted here.

It was VERY touchy. Often squidGuard would say STOPPED. The only way to make it say STARTED was to upload the blacklist again. Then, if I changed ANY setting, the filter would stop working.

For example: I uploaded the blacklist. Clicked Save. I changed default destination to:```
!all

I changed squidGuard to:```
!blk_BL_porn all
```I clicked **Apply**. Now nothing was blocked. Porn and everything else was let through. I saw squid logging the website access. I saw no errors of any kind in the squidGuard or the squid logs.

Very frustrating. I checked permissions. I tried changing /var/squidGuard to proxy:proxy (chmod -R proxy:proxy /var/squidGuard). No help.

It was very slow downloading the blacklist over and over, so I fetched it to: /var/tmp/squidGuard/hold/shallalist.tar.gz and set that path for **Blacklist URL**. That way I could just click **Upload Url**, and the DB would be processed again.

Everything works ONLY when I perform the following steps:

1) Change filter settings.
2) **Apply**.
3) Click **Upload Url**.
4) Click **Apply**.

In other words, the filter stops working every time I change a squidGuard setting. It works again if I re-process the database.

As I said, there were never any error messages, so there is nothing I can send from the logs.

[wompy]

I had similar problems to you, did you also change permissions to " /var/db/squidGurad" ? that is what finally fixed it for me.
see my previous post.

[dvserg]

Thanks!
I fix bug with '/var/db/squidGuard' right's  in installation.
Pls test.

[Monoecus]

I have reinstalled pfSense yesterday and could thus test your fixes for the rights. Anything seems to be ok now.

Many thanks.

[hinze57]

Is there a way to enable safe search?

[Monoecus]

What do you mean by “safe search”?

[xhark]

I have same problem, all is ok but nothing is filtered

[dvserg]

Renew package (today updated) and try now.

[xhark]

I delete and reinstall ?

[dvserg]

@xhark:

I delete and reinstall ?

Hm.. Try full reinstall :D

[xhark]

I talk about package ^^

[dvserg]

@xhark:

I talk about package ^^

Yes. Reinstall package

[xhark]

It's done but not filtering is active :(

Can I delete times ?

here is my log :

5.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_reconfigure: Begin.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_reconfigure_user_db: Begin with '/var/db/squidGuard'
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_reconfigure_user_db: Nothing. User destinations list empty.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_remove_unused_db_entries: Begin.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_remove_unused_db_entries: end
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_create_config: Create squidGuard config.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_create_config: Checking configuration data.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_create_config: Error configuration data. It's all errors:
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_agressif' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_agressif' not found
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_drugs' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_drugs' not found
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_mail' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_mail' not found
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_porn' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_porn' not found
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_publicite' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_publicite' not found
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_redirector' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_redirector' not found
BLACKLIST 'blk_blacklists_violence' error: file '/var/db/squidGuard/blk_blacklists_violence' not found
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_create_config: Terminated.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_create_simple_config: Begin with dbhome='/var/db/squidGuard'.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_redirector_base_url: Select redirector base url (https://192.168.0.254/sgerror.php?url=Error%21%20Check%20squidGuard%20configuration%20data.%20%28sg_create_config%3A%20%5B2%5D%29.&a=%a&n=%n&i=%i&s=%s&t=%t&u=%u)
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_reconfigure: Generate squidGuard config and save to '/usr/local/etc/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf'.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : squid_reconfigure: Begin.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : squid_reconfigure: Remove old redirector options from Squid config.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : squid_reconfigure: Add new redirector options to Squid config.
15.05.2008 16:44:52 : sg_init: Start.
15.05.2008 16:45:01 : sg_init: Start.
15.05.2008 16:45:02 : sg_init: Start.

[dvserg]

Upload blacklist previous version not make blacklist archive. And temporary set HTTP webGUI pfSense. In https can have troubles.

[xhark]

What can I do ? If I add small GZ blacklist it's OK, but with big blacklist it fails (ftp://ftp.univ-tlse1.fr/pub/reseau/cache/squidguard_contrib/blacklists.tar.gz)

[dvserg]

@xhark:

What can I do ? If I add small GZ blacklist it's OK, but with big blacklist it fails (ftp://ftp.univ-tlse1.fr/pub/reseau/cache/squidguard_contrib/blacklists.tar.gz)

Check you url manually - may be broken arhive?
Also looking this http://www.squidguard.org/blacklists.html,
i use http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz

[xhark]

Yes I've open this with 7zip without any problem.

I've test to send this in /tmp/my_directory and precise local directory to SG config, but same problem. I'll test your list and go back here ;)

[dvserg]

@xhark:

Yes I've open this with 7zip without any problem.

I've test to send this in /tmp/my_directory and precise local directory to SG config, but same problem. I'll test your list and go back here ;)

Ok
I will test and replay here.

[jwbrown77]

I was having some squidguard problems too and tracked down a different issue than what I've seen in this thread.

I am attempting to run the shallalist rules and after a lot of troubleshooting I finally noticed in the squidguard log that it couldn't find blk_BL_politics

I noticed that there's a blk_BL_politcs (notice no i) but not one with the proper spelling.  So I just symlinked the proper spelling to the improper spelling and after that it seems to work fine.

Thanks to the package maintainer for providing this software.