How To: Dansguardian Web Content Filter w/GUI (my version)

[calvinthomas]

Ok after editing things, i've messed it up and its not filtering at all any more! I tryed reinstalling the script but that hasn't helped, is there any way to completely remove this so I can reinstall it from scratch? The problem I think is this, from a terminal:

calvin@calvin-laptop:~$ dansguardian
Error opening /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf

Help much appreciated!

Calv

[mhancoc7]

Ok after editing things, i've messed it up and its not filtering at all any more! I tryed reinstalling the script but that hasn't helped, is there any way to completely remove this so I can reinstall it from scratch? The problem I think is this, from a terminal:

calvin@calvin-laptop:~$ dansguardian
Error opening /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf

Help much appreciated!

Calv

Well, you can go to Synaptic and "Completely Remove" dansguardian, tinyproxy, firehol, clamav. That should uninstall it. Then you can run the script again. Be sure that you use a fresh copy of the script. I mean delete the folder and extract it fresh from the archive. That should get everything back up and running. Don't forget to reboot after you run the script. Keep me posted.
Jereme

[honda]

Using ident on linux seems to be more of a hack than a solution: "For Unix systems where only a single user will be logged in at a time, you can use oidentd and set it up to return a user-specified string of "USERID : <OS> : <USERNAME>" where <USERNAME> is taken from an environment variable in a startup script. This isn't fool-proof, nor perfect, but it works."

In my case however I'm not trying to build a filter that can't be cheaten, it's just that I'd like to set up somewhat ridicoulusly tight filters for the 3-6 years old kids and still allow the rest of the family to be able to use the internet. So I just disabled the iptables rule that blocks direct connection to the proxy on port 3128, and configured firefox to use the proxy directly to bypass the filter.

[calvinthomas]

Thanks Jereme, that worked great, all is back working again! After disabling the downloading restrictions i'm very happy!

Calv

[Marsolin]

Thanks for working on this. I have a young kid who will be using computers before long so I really appreciate making content filtering easier to use.

I'm going to add a link to this thread from the DansGuardian entry on Linux App Finder.

[mhancoc7]

Thanks Jereme, that worked great, all is back working again! After disabling the downloading restrictions i'm very happy!

Calv

Great! I am glad we got it going again.

Thanks for working on this. I have a young kid who will be using computers before long so I really appreciate making content filtering easier to use.

I'm going to add a link to this thread from the DansGuardian entry on Linux App Finder.

Thanks for the links.

Jereme

[carney1979]

Another script in these forums killed my internet connection. But this one worked perfectly on my stand-alone desktop.

Thanks!

David

[calvinthomas]

Is there any way to temporarily disable the whole filtering software rather than editing each bit individually?

Calv

[mhancoc7]

Is there any way to temporarily disable the whole filtering software rather than editing each bit individually?

Calv

Here is a thread that discusses this.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261966

Be aware that some of the techniques are untested and not supported.

Hope that helps, Jereme

[mrhealthpatriot]

I tried to adjust DansGuardian in Ubuntu 6.0.6 (gnome) using "System - Administration - Configure Parental Controls" but nothing happens when I click on the icon. Dansguardian is installed. How do I adjust it?