Greetings! Welcome to squidGuard from a happy squidGuard user! > The squidGuard.log file is empty after > starting squid. No entries at all.
I'd bet squidGuard is having trouble finding|opening|writing to its log file. Look in your squid.conf file for cache_effective_user and cache_effective_group. Since squid will be running squidGuard, *all* of the squidGuard files/directories must be owned by the same user and group (normally squid.squid). Check both the log file and its directory. (During your test you started squidGuard, so it would have inherited your user & group. I think that explains why you were successfully writing to your log file.) If that does not correct the problem, I need to ask - are you using the default location for the log file (/var/log/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log)? There was a comment posted in this group earlier in the week that squidGuard will not start if the log is not in the default location, even if the configuration file correctly defines the logdir. Take note: No matter what the documentation says, squidGuard 1.20 requires Berkeley db version 3.29. You should be up and running in no time. ;-) Rick Matthews -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob Jolliffe Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help: New install Hi, I'm very new to squid and obviously squidguard. I've installed squidguard and I've performed a test using a test file with the following http://www.playboy.com whatever.ip.it.was/- - GET I then run squidguard /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/squidGuard/filter.conf < test > test.out when I run this and checkout the squidGuard.log I see that it's opened the db (the default porn domains list) and it seems to be working. I added www.playboy.com to the domains file in the db/porn folder. Now - when I start squid (I've edited the squid.conf file and set the redirect_program and redirect_children as per the web page) I don't believe squid is starting squidGuard. redirect_program is set to: redirect_program /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/squidGuard/filter.conf The squidGuard.log file is empty after starting squid. No entries at all. Any ideas where I can start. squid is version 2.4STABLE3 Redhat 7.1 -Rob PS: Does squidGuard cache it's DB after it opens it? Otherwise things will be pretty slow around here. ----------------------------------------- Robert Jolliffe, BASc, CNE, MCSE Creative Manufacturing Solutions Kitchener, Ontario Canada "Programming and Consulting Services" 519.585.7524 Copyright c 2001 Robert Jolliffe All Rights Reserved
