Re: [K12OSN] Squid and SquidGuard help
Jim Wildman (jim@rossberry.com)
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:42:09 -0500 (EST)
I don't know about the install for the LTSP, but normally you have to
enable the blacklists. There are examples on www.squidguard.org
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
614-404-1897 http://www.rossberry.com
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, David Trask wrote:
> I think I have it running, but it's not blocking anything....I type in
> sex.com and it still goes there.....what might I be doing wrong? Anything
> in the squidGuard.conf file I might need to change? Do I need to somehow
> enable the blacklists? The squidGuard.conf file seems to be the stock one
> from squidGuard.....I remember seeing one yesterday (though not sure from
> where) that showed the redirect of www.searchopolis.com whereas the stock
> one shows the cgi stuff fro squidGuard for the redirect. I'm wondering
> if the dbhome is pointing to the right place in the one I have now it
> says..../var/squidGuard/blacklists is that right? Any ideas.....can
> you give an example of how I can put in my own redirect in the
> squidGuard.conf file? thanks!
>
> David Trask
>
> eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us writes:
> >On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, David Trask wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>Been awhile, but I'm at it again. Many of you may have heard that the
> >>State of Maine is giving laptops to every single 7th and 8th grader
> >>statewide beginning this fall. That means a whole lotta' computers are
> >>dropping in on my network in a hurry. I need a proxy server...and bad!
> >I
> >>also currently run a redirected filtering service from N2H2 (Bess). I
> >>unfortunately didn't take the added computers into account when I
> >budgeted
> >>for the Bess filtering service (simply a proxy server offsite that
> >>provides our filtering).
> >>
> >>Today I used my K12lLTSP 2.0 discs to install (custom) RH 7.2 and Squid
> >>w/SquidGuard on a PIII 667mhz with 128mb RAM and a 10gb HDD (one
> >>NIC...do I need two?...I just want it to sit somehwere on my
> >network...not
> >>like a gateway). After a lot of friggin' around I finally got Squid to
> >>work (I think...I set my browser to proxy to the IP of the machine and
> >>port 3128...and it went out OK), but not SquidGuard.
> >
> >If squid is working, you're 99% of the way there. The squid ACL's are the
> >toughest part, everything else is cake ;-)
> >
> >First-things-first, was this a K12LTSP-2.0.0 or a K12LTSP-2.0.1 disc?
> >I put in a couple small fixes to my squidGuard package in 2.0.1.
> >
> >Run:
> >
> > rpm -q squidGuard
> >
> >if rpm reports you have vesion squidGuard-1.2.0-3, you're good to go. If
> >not,
> >run:
> >
> > rpm -Uhv
> >ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/distributions/K12LTSP-rpms/2.0.1/squidGuard-1.2.0-3.i386.rpm
> >
> >to upgrade it to the latest build.
> >
> >
> >Once that's out of the way, edit /etc/squid.conf. Around line 880 (the
> >squid config file is overly verbose!), there is the section for
> >"redirect_program". Add in squidGuard as the redirect program:
> >
> > redirect_program /usr/sbin/squidGuard -c /etc/squid/squidGuard.conf
> >
> >and restart squid
> >
> > /sbin/service squid restart
> >
> >
> >Now you be able to run "ps auxw | grep squidGuard" and see a number of
> >squidGuard processes running.
> >
> >If everything checks out ok, try going to "www.123456789.com" (an used
> >URL that I use as a test "bad" site") and see if it works.
> >
> >If it does not work... well write back to the list and we'll do a little
> >bit of debugging.
>
>
>
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask@vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100
>
>
>
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