Dansguardian : lessons learned

To dis-allow users from connecting to a site via IP rather than URL name (so bypassing filtering unless you use the time consuming forward / reverse lookup feature), uncomment the following line in the bannedsitelist:

*ip

To enable syslog, the default dansguardian.conf uses:

# Syslog logging
#
# Use syslog for access logging instead of logging to the file
# at the defined or built-in “loglocation”
#syslog = on

The line “syslog = on”  is incorrect and should be changed to:

logsyslog = on

The facility and priority used by dansguardian is:
user.info

In  order for danguardian to display the category when blocking a site, insert the following line at the beginning of each domain blacklist file:
#listcategory: “name_of_category_here”

A quick script to do insert the above mentioned line into each enabled blacklist (note: be careful, these statements are all one-liners):

#! /bin/bash

categories=`cat /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/bannedsitelist | grep -v “#” | grep “Include” | cut -d “/” -f 8`

for category in $categories

do
echo ‘#listcategory: “‘$category'”‘ > /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/blacklists/$category/domain.new

cat /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/blacklists/$category/domains | grep -v “#” >> /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/blacklists/$category/domain.new

rm -f /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/blacklists/$category/domains

mv /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/blacklists/$category/domain.new /usr/local/etc/dansguardian/lists/blacklists/$category/domains

done

In order to modify the blocked page displayed, change the following file:

/usr/local/share/dansguardian/languages/ukenglish/template.html