[K12OSN] OT: Smoothwall and Dansguardian

[Henry Hartley]

On: Tue, 03 May 2005 at 11:32 AM, Jon Spriggs said:
>> 
>> On 5/3/05, Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > When I run:
>> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/dansguardian status
>> > I get:
>> > Parent DansGuardian pid:2112
>> > 
>> > so it seems to be running. I've changed the DG loglevel to 3 but
>> > /var/log/dansguardian/access.log is still 0 bytes long. Actually,
>> > I deleted that file and had a bit of trouble because dansguardian
>> > couldn't create it (because of permissions). I created a file and
>> > made "nobody" the owner. At that point, dansguardian stopped
>> > complaining but it still doesn't seem to be doing anything.
>> 
>> Which account actually runs the Dansguardian script? Have you given
>> that account write permissions to that file?
>> 
>> Run the following command to check and see if actually is running
>> 
>> ps aux |grep -i dans
>> 
>> If it's not running, then how about giving rw perms to all users
>> with regards to that file initially, and seeing where it fails.

It seems to be running as nobody.  That's what's weird.

[root at hhh-gateway root]# ps aux | grep -i dans
nobody 4444 0.0 29.9 19828 18560 ? S May01 0:00 /usr/sbin/dansgua
nobody 4445 0.0 29.9 19832 18560 ? S May01 0:00 /usr/sbin/dansgua
nobody 4446 0.0 30.0 20808 18564 ? S May01 0:00 /usr/sbin/dansgua
root  29946 0.0  0.7  1424  456 ttyp1 S 11:29 0:00 grep -i dans

[root at hhh-gateway dansguardian]# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   root         4096 May  1 17:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 May  1 17:54 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   root            0 May  1 17:42 access.log

It's running but not logging anything.  Obviously (or apparently,
anyway) it's being bypassed but everything (that I've checked) implies
that it shouldn't be being bypassed.

-- 
Henry