Topic: SquidGuard Blacklist Update

[Dave Helmuth]

I followed the instructions for downloading/installing e-Smith squidGuard at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org/msg04718.html

All appeared to go well until the end of the install when a few errors popped up about not being able to open a file.

However after booting, sites are being blocked.  I am however getting the following error message e-mailed to the admin account:

/etc/cron.daily/supdate.cron:

04:06:10 URL:http://ftp.ost.eltele.no:80/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/blacklists.tar.gz%7E [1420983/1420983] -> "blacklists.tar.gz~" [1]
tar (child): blacklists.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
cp: cannot stat blacklists/*': No such file or directory

It appears that the supdate.cron file is trying to get the most current blacklists from squidGuard.  Here are the contents of supdate.cron


#!/bin/sh
#
# Trigger supdate for SquidGuard
cd /usr/local/squidGuard
./supdate >> /var/log/messages
rm -Rf /usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
touch /usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
chmod 644 /usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
chown squid /usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
chgrp squid /usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log


Does anyone know what would cause it to bomb out??

Thanks for the help!!!

[S]

The squidGuard blacklist tar file has moved.
Trevor Oulette mentioned it on the devinfo mailing list and is liasing with the squidGuard people.

[Trevor Ouellette]

Ok,

The blacklist update will work with a few changes:

1. Log in as root/password in the console (ALT-F2)
2. cd /usr/local/squidGuard
3. vi supdate

Ok, now press "i" for Insert mode and use your arrow keys to make the following changes:

- Add a "~" to the end of the line line, like this:
wget -nv http://ftp.ost.eltele.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/blacklists.tar.gz~

- Add a "~" to the end of this line as well, like this:
tar -zxf blacklists.tar.gz~

Now, to save your file, press ESC once, and now enter   :wq!

to do an update manually, ./supdate from the squidGuard directory.

Good LUCK!  There will be a version 2 coming soon.

[David Helmuth]

Worked like a champ!!!  Thanks a ton Trevor.  I really like this feature.  I hope that the same capability gets incorporated back in to the normal distribution.