[squid-users] Squid with squidguard

[Alex K]

Hi all,

I was using a squid (3.1.20) + squidguard setup (to filter out several site
categories) on Debian 7 and the setup worked. The squidguard was invoked
from squid.conf as below:

redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
redirect_children 7

I am now testing the setup on Debian 9 (with squid 3.5.23) with the
following lines in squid.conf:

url_rewrite_access allow
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
url_rewrite_children 5

But I get at squid logs:

2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 0/5 'squidGuard'
processes
2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: No 'squidGuard' processes
needed.


Seems that squid is ignoring and not starting squidguard.
I have read also some have mentioned that squidguard is not maintained
anymore.

Any idea on the above?
Any better alternative to squidguard that you recommend?

thanx,
Alex

[Amos Jeffries]

Post by Alex K
Hi all,
I was using a squid (3.1.20) + squidguard setup (to filter out several
site categories) on Debian 7 and the setup worked. The squidguard was
redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
redirect_children 7
I am now testing the setup on Debian 9 (with squid 3.5.23) with the
url_rewrite_access allow

There are no ACLs on the above line. So it cannot match anything. The
implicit default applies instead. Implicit default after any "allow"
line is "deny all".

Also, you did not configure any allow/deny previously. So why add it now?

Post by Alex K
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
url_rewrite_children 5
2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 0/5 'squidGuard'
processes
2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: No 'squidGuard' processes
needed.

No traffic is allowed to go to the helper. So no SG processes necessary.
Squid is correct.

Post by Alex K
Seems that squid is ignoring and not starting squidguard.
I have read also some have mentioned that squidguard is not maintained
anymore.
Any idea on the above?> Any better alternative to squidguard that you recommend?

ufdbguard is much better than the outdated and no longer maintained
SquidGuard (but is not packaged on Debian).

Amos

[Alex K]

Thank you Amos for the feedback.

I did see an example online using ACL and that tricked me.
Removing the allow line, now squid is logging that squidguard is started
(though no squidguard processes are listed, it could be due to that I have
not tested yet with actual traffic)

I will check also ufdbguard as it seems promising.

Thanx,
Alex

Post by Amos Jeffries

Post by Alex K
Hi all,
I was using a squid (3.1.20) + squidguard setup (to filter out several
site categories) on Debian 7 and the setup worked. The squidguard was
redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
redirect_children 7
I am now testing the setup on Debian 9 (with squid 3.5.23) with the
url_rewrite_access allow

There are no ACLs on the above line. So it cannot match anything. The
implicit default applies instead. Implicit default after any "allow"
line is "deny all".
Also, you did not configure any allow/deny previously. So why add it now?

Post by Alex K
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.

conf

Post by Alex K
url_rewrite_children 5
2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 0/5 'squidGuard'
processes
2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: No 'squidGuard' processes
needed.

No traffic is allowed to go to the helper. So no SG processes necessary.
Squid is correct.

Post by Alex K
Seems that squid is ignoring and not starting squidguard.
I have read also some have mentioned that squidguard is not maintained
anymore.
Any idea on the above?> Any better alternative to squidguard that you

recommend?
ufdbguard is much better than the outdated and no longer maintained
SquidGuard (but is not packaged on Debian).
Amos
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