IPCop 1.4 and Dan's Guardian - HOWTO From Source

Eugene Koontz (ekoontz@hiro-tan.org)

1. Obtain prerequisite : a x86 Linux box.

   You need a Linux PC with the standard development tools available : gcc, make, etc. Just an IPCop box won't do it - you need a full-fledged distribution like Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, Mandrake, whatever you prefer.

2. Download Dan's Guardian source

   Get DansGuardian-2.6.1-13.source.tar.gz from the IPCop mirror list (look in the "Stable" directory) and save it to /tmp.

3. Build Dan's Guardian

   In a shell do :

   cd /tmp
   tar xfz DansGuardian-2.6.1-13.source.tar.gz
   cd DansGuardian-2.6.1
   ./configure && make
           

   After this, you will have a binary executable called "dansguardian" in your /tmp/DansGuardian-2.6.1 directory.

4. Create dageek directory

   In a shell do :

   mkdir /tmp/dageek
           

5. Download and unpack dageek's dansguardian

   We will use our own self-built binary of dansguardian along with dageek's custom IPCop-specific scripts, which we'll get in the following tarball.

   Get this tarball from DaGeek's site (Here's a local copy, in case DaGeek's site is not accessible) and save it to /tmp/dageek, and in a shell do :

   cd /tmp/dageek
   tar xfz dansguardian.tar.gz
   tar xfz dg-2.6.1.tar.gz
   rm *.tar.gz
   

   Note that we "rm" the existing tar.gz's in the above step - we don't need them since since we'll create new ones.

6. Copy new binary dansguardian to dageek directory

   In a shell do :

   cp /tmp/DansGuardian-2.6.1/dansguardian /tmp/dageek
   

   Note that this overwrites the existing, old version of the dansguardian binary that is packaged with DaGeek's tar.gz.

7. Re-create tarball of dansguardian, ready for IPCop use.

   In a shell do :

   cd /tmp/dageek
   mv information setup ..
   tar cfz dg-2.6.1.tar.gz .
   rm -rf `find -mindepth 1 -not -name dg-2.6.1.tar.gz`
   mv ../information ../setup .
   tar cfz /tmp/dansguardian.tar.gz .
   

8. Follow my directions to install /tmp/dansguardian.tar.gz on a new IPCop install

   After Steps 1 through 7, you have a file : /tmp/dansguardian.tar.gz which you can use as the "Dan's Guardian for IPCop 1.4" in Step 1 of those directions.

   The second file mentioned in Step 1 of those directions, "Dan's Guardian Gui for IPCop 1.4" is a source-only tar.gz, and so there's no need to build anything for it; simply use it as is. It may be helpful to compare this verison of the Dan's Guardian Gui with DaGeek's version.

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