Thanks for the information on the robot. I will review your config file later today, but I did want to ask a follow-up.
Based on the entries in your squid config file, your blacklist files *must* be user=netmax and group=netmax. Having them owned by any other user/group could create the errors that you've experienced. Would you mind checking those? Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Manuel Lujan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:32 AM To: Rick Matthews; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: database errors We have our server plugged directly into a T1 line and I was only going to run it once every month, then stop it after it is done, so Bandwidth is no problem. Time is no problem either, because our school district operates on a four day week, thus leaving Thursday evening through Monday morning to run whatever we need for network maintenance. The information regarding "squidGuard robot recommended options" is in the readme file http://ftp.ost.eltele.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/squidGuardRobo t/ The following section is towards the bottom: In the beginning you probably want to run in verbose or debug mode to see and learn what's going on: nice squidGuardRobot -d -c config >log 2>&1 & tail -f log ( I assume the squidGuard.conf file replaces "config") Be prepared to have it running for _several_ hours. Especially the first times when all links are unknown and have to be tested. here is my squidGuard.conf #---------------------------------------------------------------- # DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE AS IT IS MODIFIED BY THE TEMPLATE #---------------------------------------------------------------- # SquidGuard CONFIGURATION FILE #---------------------------------------------------------------- # # CONFIGURATION DIRECTORIES logdir /local/squid/squidGuard/log dbhome /local/squid/squidGuard/dbhome # TIME RULES: # abbrev for weekdays: # s = sun, m = mon, t =tue, w = wed, h = thu, f = fri, a = sat # DESTINATION CLASSES: dest ads { domainlist ads/domains urllist ads/urls } dest porn { domainlist porn/domains urllist porn/urls expressionlist porn/expressions } dest mail { domainlist mail/domains } dest warez { domainlist warez/domains urllist warez/urls } dest hacking { domainlist hacking/domains urllist hacking/urls } # ACLs acl { default { pass !porn !ads !hacking !warez !mail all redirect http://www.huerfano.k12.co.us/Tech_support/squidGuard.pl?clientaddr=%a&s rcclass=%s&targetclass=%t&url=%u } } my squid.conf file has the following: cache_effective_user netmax cache_effective_group netmax The size of the ads/domains and the ads/domains.db are 5502 bytes and 16384 bytes, respectively. Thanks, Manuel -- Manuel R. Lujan Assistant Technology Coordinator CompTIA A+ Certified Professional Huerfano School District Re-1 611 West 7th Street Walsenburg, CO 81089 Phone: 719-738-1899 OR 719-738-1571 Fax: 719-738-3148 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page: http://huerfano.k12.co.us Personal Web page: http://huerfano.k12.co.us/~mlujan/-- Certifications: CompTIA -- A+; Brainbench.com -- Computer Tech. Support, Computer Fundamentals (Win 95/98) (Mac OS 8.6), Nettwork Tech. Support, TCP/IP Admin., Windows 95/98 Admin., Mac OS8 Navigation, Windows NT 4.0 Wkstn Admin. --
