Re: [K12OSN] Squid and SquidGuard help

["David Trask" <dtrask vcs u52 k12 me us>]

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