Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid + Dansguardian
--- Gareth Edmondson
Not sure if this is right for a SuSE group, but our school installed another Linux distro called CensorNet (which is based on Debian - sorry).
This uses DansGuardian (albeit modified), and provides a nice frontend.
Censornet is having a few issues to do with proxying. I wouldn't recommend it.
I await the flames for offering the information on another distro :-)
Nonsense. This list hasn't been SuSE-based in a long while. -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html
Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Gareth Edmondson
wrote: Not sure if this is right for a SuSE group, but our school installed another Linux distro called CensorNet (which is based on Debian - sorry).
This uses DansGuardian (albeit modified), and provides a nice frontend.
Censornet is having a few issues to do with proxying. I wouldn't recommend it.
I would :) We have been using CensorNet happily for a year now and love the facilities it offers, particularly the reporting and access control. I know at least one other school close to us that uses it, Portsmouth College use several CensorNet boxes, and Bracknell and Woking College are looking at replacing their main filters with it. Becuase it's Debian based, its quite easy to customise. This is when you problems can arise, but the ones I've had have been totally my fault :) If you use CensorNet "out-of-the-box" (off the CD?) it shouldn't present any problem. Cheers, Tony
--- Tony Whitmore
I know at least one other school close to us that uses it, Portsmouth College use several CensorNet boxes, and Bracknell and Woking College are looking at replacing their main filters with it.
Fair enough. I have never used it myself. I can't quite see what it does that any other distro that installs squid/squidguard/dansguardian cannot do. Ok, it might lack the support of a bells and whistle front-end, but vi(m) is not *that* hard to use :) -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html
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