Topic: SquidGuard and New blacklists?

[steve288]

I have installed SquidGuard3.2.tar.gz  on my SME 7.3 server gateway.

It works great. I put in the ip address into the gateway of the xp computer network settings and it blocks nicely. Perfect.

It appears that the blacklist that came with this package is old and I saw a note that it is not being updated.

The link  in the content filter is ... ftp://ftp.teledanmark.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/blacklists.tar.gz

I have gone to squidguard.org and see that there are several blacklists available. Some are gz file you download like

http://www.shallalist.de/, has while another is a link at

http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=bigblacklist which is a link to a download file.

Anyway. I have looked but cannot find a straight forward answer to how I can update the blacklist in squidguard and how to update it to a newer version and how can I get it to do it on a regular basis automatically.

thanks.

[janet]

steve288

search forums on blacklist as there were instructions posted a few months (or more) ago, which were derived from the old Dansguardian Howto, which may steer you in the right direction

Using squidguard blocking rules

If you wish to make dansguardian use squidguard blocking rules & have them updated weekly then ad the following to /etc/cron.weekly/dansguardian

Please check the location of the blacklists is still current, if necessary search Google on "squidGuard blacklists" to find a current location.

You can also download the blacklist from this archive:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/contribs/dansguardian/rpms/2.8.0.6/

cd /etc/dansguardian

rm -r blacklists.tar.gz

wget -qnv http://ftp.teledanmark.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/blacklists.tar.gz -O blacklists.tar.gz

tar -zxf blacklists.tar.gz

chown -R root.root blacklists

chmod -R 640 blacklists

find blacklists -name new\* -exec rm {} \;

rm blacklists/README

chmod ug+x blacklists

chmod ug+x blacklists/*

[steve288]

Thank you for your helpful suggestions.

However Im a little confused. Im currently using squidguard, I have not installed dansguardian. Your instruction talk about dansguardian. Actually I have never used Dansguardian. Squidguard seems to work very well for our purposes. Not sure what the difference between them is. But as I say squidguard works for our purposes.

Are your instructions still applicable for SquidGuard. or is my ignorance showing?

Regards

[Stefano]

hi

take a lokk here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138678

HTH
Stefano

[steve288]

Thanks I have downloaded it but Im not sure what to do with it.

regards

[janet]

steve288

Are your instructions still applicable for SquidGuard.

Well the instructions do refer to installing squidguard rules, and obviously in reference to Dansguardian.
They were a guide for you, so you will need to work out how to do it for the squidguard package you have installed.
You were also advised to search the forums.