[K12OSN] Squid & Content filtering

[Will Hatch]

Ditto to your post Rita.  I have Ipcop and Dansguardian going here at our school.  I have not however, been able to tweak the settings.  I have teachers who can't check email.  If you figure out how to let certain users through the filter, let me know.  Thanks!  -Will
> 
> From: Rita Gibson <rgibson57 at earthlink.net>
> Date: 2004/10/20 Wed PM 02:50:48 EDT
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Squid & Content filtering
> 
> 
> Someone who knows far more than me handles the firewall and internet 
> filtering at our school. But I have been trying to learn some stuff on 
> my own and saw a recommendation for IPCop on this list. At home, I have 
> installed IPCop and dansguardian. There are very good howto's out there 
> on the IPCop site, and with IPCop the updates and everything are right 
> there on the site, and fairly automated with a web interface. The howto 
> I followed off the IPCop "addons" site have you using a combination of 
> dansguardian and the squidguard blacklists. I still haven't been able to 
> figure out how to tweak dansguardian so that it doesn't block too much, 
> but I'm figuring it out slowly but surely. I have my own teenagers here 
> at home, and get plenty of feedback.
> 
> I had the CD burned, and the howtos printed out already, in thirty 
> minutes I had installed and configured everything with the howtos.
> 
> Rita Gibson
> Tech Support
> RMSEL
> 
> 
> Huck wrote:
> 
> > I use dansguardian and squid...both older versions on an older version 
> > of redhat..
> >
> > --Huck
> >
> > KJ wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I have installed (Finally!) K12 LTSP and it is working great!  I had 
> >> a bad CD player, took me weeks to figure that out (I'm not worthy to 
> >> be a geek anymore!)  :-)
> >>
> >> Now my question is Squid and Content filtering.  I have been unable 
> >> to get Squid to work, I'm not really sure where to look or what to do 
> >> to get started, can anyone point me in the right direction?  (ie. 
> >> websites with HOWTO's or something)  I'd really appreciate it.
> >>
> >> Also if you can tell me what you use for content filtering and what 
> >> seems to be the best, I'd really appreciate it!
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> KJ
> >> The "How far the mighty have fallen" geek
> >>
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