General MoBlock thread

[lovinglinux]

Thanks, lovinglinux, for this information - I totally missed that. Although the level1 is not empty here.

You are welcome. Level 1 is ok now, but it was empty when I wrote the previous post

If you want to use that blocklists try a "moblock-control update" or download it manually. Then place the blocklist in /var/spool/moblock-control/used. (e.g. "sudo cp level1.gz /var/spool/moblock-control/used")

I couldn't find /var/spool/moblock-control/used but I have found /var/spool/moblock/used and mobloquer is updating to this directory. Does this means that the new moblock-control package wasn't properly installed or is just the path configured in mobloquer settings?

Anyway, I have created a script to download Bluetack's lists from an alternative source and move them to /var/spool/moblock/used directory, so moblock can be loaded properly. This do not require any changes in moblock lists.

#!/bin/bash

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/ads-trackers-and-bad-pr0n.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_ads
sudo mv ~/Desktop/ads-trackers-and-bad-pr0n.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/ads-trackers-and-bad-pr0n.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/Microsoft.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_microsoft
sudo mv ~/Desktop/Microsoft.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/Microsoft.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/bogon.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_bogon
sudo mv ~/Desktop/bogon.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/bogon.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/dshield.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_dshield
sudo mv ~/Desktop/dshield.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/dshield.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/edu.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_edu
sudo mv ~/Desktop/edu.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/edu.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/hijacked.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_hijacked
sudo mv ~/Desktop/hijacked.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/hijacked.gz

#wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/iana-multicast.gz http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/iana-multicast.gz
#sudo mv ~/Desktop/iana-multicast.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/iana-multicast.gz

#wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/iana-private.gz http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/iana-private.gz
#sudo mv ~/Desktop/iana-private.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/iana-private.gz

#wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/iana-reserved.gz http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/iana-reserved.gz
#sudo mv ~/Desktop/iana-reserved.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/iana-reserved.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/level1.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1
sudo mv ~/Desktop/level1.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/level1.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/level2.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level2
sudo mv ~/Desktop/level2.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/level2.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/level3.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level3
sudo mv ~/Desktop/level3.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/level3.gz

#wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/fornonlancomputers.gz http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/fornonlancomputers.gz
#sudo mv ~/Desktop/fornonlancomputers.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/fornonlancomputers.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/proxy.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_proxy
sudo mv ~/Desktop/proxy.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/proxy.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/rangetest.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_rangetest
sudo mv ~/Desktop/rangetest.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/rangetest.gz
           
wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/spyware.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_spyware
sudo mv ~/Desktop/spyware.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/spyware.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/spider.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_spider
sudo mv ~/Desktop/spider.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/spider.gz

wget --timeout=30 --tries=3 --timestamping --no-directories -O ~/Desktop/templist.gz http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_templist
sudo mv ~/Desktop/templist.gz /var/spool/moblock/used/templist.gz

Don't forget to remove or comment the lines of lists that you don't use.

This must be run through Terminal, because it will prompt for sudo password.

There is probably a more elegant way of doing this, but I'm still a Linux newbie . I hope this will help people experiencing issues updating bluetack's lists.