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Dansguardian: Unable to getgrnam(): Success, Error opening/creating log file.

Even after you have successfully installed dansguardian in your system, you may a get an error 'Unable to getgrnam(): Success' when you try to run dansguardian.

Follow these steps to solve this problem.
1. Check whether the user 'nobody' exists.
$ cat  /etc/passwd
see whether 'nobody' is listed. If not found add it.

2. Check whether the group 'nogroup' exits.
$ cat /etc/group

see whether 'nogroup' is listed. If not found add it.

3. Now open the dansguardian.conf and edit:
$ sudo vi /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf

uncomment and change # daemongroup = 'nobody' to
daemongroup = 'nogroup'
If you try to run dansguardian now you may get a error message like this:
Error opening/creating log file. (check ownership and access rights).I am running as nobody and I am trying to open /var/log/dansguardian//access.log
4. Now change the permissions on your log files.
$ sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /var/log/dansguardian/

replace '/var/log/dansguardian/' with your location if you have install in it some other location.


Now you will be able to run dansguardian successfully.
Please comment whether it worked or not.

Comments

Daniel K said…
This fixed my problem exactly! Thanks!
Nelson Oepkes said…
I updated the conf file, but it's still not working for me. Could there be a permission problem else where?
Unknown said…
IT WORKS - Thank you very much:)

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