Hi

What is the latest with this issue?

I thought I would try ident today to see if I could get it working.
I am not using ident to match the acl's, only for logging.

It seems to only work, however only sporadically though (for me).

Squid logs the ident for every request. By setting up a custom log on a
destination, I see that squidGuard only receives the ident information
sometimes. ie:
2002-10-02 16:14:40 [1305] Request(jay/media/-)
http://www.iinet.net.au/~jat/song.mp3 10.20.10.100/- - GET
2002-10-02 16:16:46 [1305] Request(jay/url/-) http://www.dictionary.com/fun/
10.20.10.100/- jturner GET
2002-10-02 16:17:20 [1305] Request(jay/media/-)
http://www.iinet.net.au/~jat/song.mp3 10.20.10.100/- - GET
2002-10-02 16:20:27 [1374] Request(jay/media/-)
http://www.iinet.net.au/~jat/song.mp3 10.20.10.100/- - GET

As you can see, it came through with dictionary.com, but not on the mp3
request.
I am using php to do my logging and on my denied page I am logging to the
screen the ident details. Sometimes the ident info is there, other times
it's not. But it is always listed in squid's access.log.

1033546640.489      6 10.20.10.100 TCP_MISS/200 1592 GET
http://www.iinet.net.au/~jat/song.mp3 jturner DIRECT/10.20.10.224 text/html

Any ideas?
It did appear, though I can't accurately confirm, that the ident info would
not appear until I got access to a site that was not blocked. Then
subsequent blocked pages would show the ident, for a period of time. This
may just be a massive coincidence.

Here are the standard details:
squid - 2.4STABLE6 (non transparent)
squidGuard - 1.1.4 (An upgrade is planned but I am dreading the potential
Berkley DB problems that we are all aware of)
Berkley DB Version - unsure how to actually get this.!?
RedHat 7.3
Accessing from a Win2000 Pro client with IE6 with a proxy address set in the
browser.

Regards
Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Spare
Sent: Monday, 30 September 2002 3:35 PM
To: 'Jaap Lelie'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: ident



Ah, well, There's your problem I think, smoothwall is running as a
transparent proxy if memory serves me correctly so Squid isn't going work
with ident. There's no reason you can't get this working though, your
clients would need to explicitly use the proxy in some way either setting it
in the options of using a PAC file.

As for altering the smoothwall config, you can alter it. I had a version
running at my home office for a look-see and I found some problems with the
Squid conf as shipped and just changed it around. However, what would work
better if you've got any number of clients at all is to build another squid
proxy and use the smoothwall as its parent cache. That way you can get a
'better' proxy configuration and more cache space, you also look at not
running in the transparent mode. There's nothing wrong with transparent mode
but my personal preference is to have the control that PAC files etc give
us.

Ian



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