Re: [squid-users] New to List needing squid.conf help!

Mark T. C. wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been using Linux (RH 5.2) for years and it does what I need it to do
>just fine. I've had it running squid and simple X-window telnet, perl,
>expect, apache, etc... just for fooling around and learning. Now that I have
>teenage boys, and the internet - well, Squid and webalizer are really coming
>in handy. I am having some problems getting simple ACLs to work. I can make
>them work in this fashion...
>
>acl ACLX url_regex -i sex
>.
>.
>.
>http_access deny ACLX
>.
>.
>.
>
>But then I have to create billions of lists like the pair above
>ad-Infinitum. There must be a better way... so, I see in the help in
>squid.conf the following...
>
>acl aclname acltype "file" ...
>
>where acltype can be url_pattern (or url_regex ???) and the file says it
>must contain one entry per line, which I can only assume must be a regular
>expresion pattern such as .*sex.*???
>
>But... when I use...
>
>acl BANLIST url_regex (or url_pattern) ban-list
>http_access deny BANLIST
>... and place the file ban-list with a bazillion lines of nasty word
>patterns in it, nothing gets banned, not even http://www.sex.com... sigh.
>
>Is there anywhere where anyone has actually written a step-wise manual that
>really, in english, with procedure - explains how to configure these things.
>I do not mean a syntax manual... I mean a method and purpose example and
>method that does a job, specifically and purposefully. I write this sort of
>documentation all day long at my work. ANYONE - with our with out in depth
>experience can pick up one of my docs and perform the task - in this case
>how to add a phrase or site to an ACL in squid.conf to ban a specific http
>access... see what I mean.
>
>Thanks in advance (how's that for an introduction)... I have many more to
>come...
>
>Mark
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Have you looked at http://dansguardian.org? Possibly SquidGuard? Would
make what you are doing MUCH easier.

Scott
Received on Sun Jan 01 2006 - 22:16:07 MST