[squid-users] Help: squid restarts and squidGuard die

[Donald Muller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> On Behalf
> Of Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:16 AM
> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Help: squid restarts and squidGuard die
> 
> On 19.09.18 20:47, Donald Muller wrote:
> >So instead of using squidguard are you saying  you should use something
> like the following?
> >
> >acl ads dstdomain -i "/etc/squid/squid-ads.acl"
> >acl adult dstdomain -i "/etc/squid/squid-adult.acl"
> >
> >http_access deny ads
> >http_access deny adult
> >
> >Do the lists need to be sorted in alphabetical order?
> 
> I don't think so - the lists are parsed to in -memory format for faster
> processing.
> 

Does Squid monitor dstdomain files for changes and reload them or does a '-k reconfigure' need to be issued?

> The case where sw like ufdbguard is important is where you use regular
> expressions like url_regex (but srcdom_regex and dstdom_regex may neet it
> too).
> 
> Processing of those is very inefficient inside of squid.
> 
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> On
> >> Behalf Of Amos Jeffries
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:04 PM
> >> To: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
> >> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Help: squid restarts and squidGuard die
> >>
> >> On 19/09/18 1:54 AM, neok wrote:
> >> > Thank you very much Amos for putting me in the right direction.
> >> > I successfully carried out the modifications you indicated to me.
> >> > Regarding ufdbGuard, if I understood correctly, what you recommend
> >> > is to use the ufdbConvertDB tool to convert my blacklists in plain
> >> > text to the ufdbGuard database format? And then use that/those
> >> > databases in normal squid ACL's?
> >>
> >> No, ufdbguard is a fork of SquidGuard that can be used as a drop-in
> >> replacement which works better while you improve your config.
> >>
> >> You should work towards less complexity. Squid / squid.conf is where
> >> HTTP access control takes place. The helper is about re-writing the
> >> URL
> >> (only) - which is a complex and destructive process.
> 
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