Re: Squidguard

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

On 7.1 I have the following RPMs:
squid-2.3.STABLE4-10
squidGuard-1.1.4-11mdk

squid, db1, db2 & db3 were part of my full 7.1 install

squidGuard-1.1.4-11mdk.i586.rpm I downloaded from rufus.w3.org
(it has an i586, i386 and of course src)

There was some doc reading involved (the RPM didn't do everything)
I remember having to edit squid.conf
and also having to read the blacklist docs after downloading the
blacklists from the squidgiard web site and creating directories
etc for the blacklists

No problems - my 10 year old does ALL of her browsing through it

If you get a config problem try posting squid.conf, squiguard.conf
and a fully qualified directory list of the squidguard blacklist files

The changes to squid.conf after installing everything (and me changing
things) were:

http_port mycomputerFQDN:3128
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 500 16 256
redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard
redirect_children 4
acl allowed_hosts src a.b.c.0/255.255.255.128 # (I have half a C class)
http_access allow allowed_hosts
ipc_access allow allowed_hosts
ipc_access deny all
visible_hostname mycomputerFQDN

My firewall stops all external connections to the computer so the
access stuff isn't important for me (and may not be secure)

Also:
The squidguard log directory is owned squid:squid
all the blacklist directories are world readable

And I put squidGuard in /usr/squidGuard/
(world readable directory and all contents)
i.e.
/usr/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf
/usr/squidGuard/blacklists/
/usr/squidGuard/log/
that may be because that is where squidGuard looks by default?


Lastly, there is a squidGuard mailing list at the squidGuard site.
(Which I read :-)

-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!