[squid-users] Squid with squidguard

[Alex K]

Hi all,

I was using a squid (3.1.20) + squidguard setup (to filter out several site
categories) on Debian 7 and the setup worked. The squidguard was invoked
from squid.conf as below:

redirect_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
redirect_children 7

I am now testing the setup on Debian 9 (with squid 3.5.23) with the
following lines in squid.conf:

url_rewrite_access allow
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/squidGuard -c /etc/squidguard/squidGuard.conf
url_rewrite_children 5

But I get at squid logs:

2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 0/5 'squidGuard'
processes
2018/04/24 12:06:57 kid1| helperOpenServers: No 'squidGuard' processes
needed.


Seems that squid is ignoring and not starting squidguard.
I have read also some have mentioned that squidguard is not maintained
anymore.

Any idea on the above?
Any better alternative to squidguard that you recommend?

thanx,
Alex
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