Update over Proxy

[ramsed]

Hi all,

I've just installed Proxmox on a VMWare Machine and it works great. Unfortunately my PC is currently behind a HTTP-Proxy and I am not able to connect to the Internet directly in the WEB-Admin interface for Updates.

Is there any solution providing the Update-System with the Proxy's Adress, Port and User-id & Password ?

Thanks,

David

 

[christian]

Hello ramsed!

If you are using a transparent proxy this should be no problem.

Otherwise you can add a proxy manually:

1) Connect to your proxmox mail agteway via ssh
2) First open /var/lib/proxmox/templates/freshclam.conf.in
3) Add HTTPProxyServer your.proxy.tld
4) Then type "proxconfig -s" to syncronize the new configuration

Be aware, that you have to do step 1-4 after every installation, update and/or backup restore.

We have decided to include a possibility to configure this via web interface
in one of the next versions.

regards,
Christian

 

[ramsed]

Ganz herzlichen Dank Chrisitan !

 

[GWAdmin]

Proxy with Authentication

Hello,

we also have a Proxy-Server, but we are using authentication.

Which settings are necessary to connect over this proxy

Regards
Andreas

 

[dietmar]

See man freshclam.conf for a detailed description of all options. The following 4 options are useful for Proxies:

HTTPProxyServer STR, HTTPProxyPort NUM
              Use given proxy server and TCP port for database downloads.

HTTPProxyUsername STR,HTTPProxyPassword STR
              Proxy usage is authenticated through given  username  and  pass-
              word.
              Default: no proxy authentication

(Be aware that you have to apply those changes after each software update)

 

[GWAdmin]

Other Problem with update via Proxy

First thanx for your Help, i've found out, that our Proxy does not accept "normal" authentication, only via windows ntlm, so we created a user for it.

BUT:
I have removed the autentication data and since that, the automatic updates doesnt work anymore.

If i manually update the ClamAV it works fine,
here can you see my "freshclam.conf.in":

   DatabaseOwner clamav
   LogSyslog
   MaxAttempts 5
   Checks 24
   DatabaseMirror __SYSTEM:CLAMAV:DBMIRROR__
   NotifyClamd
   DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net




   ~
   ~
   ~

Regards
GWAdmin[/img]

 

[dietmar]

Did you run "proxconfig -s" (or press save on the web interface (Virus detector configuration tab))?

After that the file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf should look like:

DatabaseOwner clamav
LogSyslog
MaxAttempts 5
Checks 24
DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
NotifyClamd
DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net

Please can you verify that. What happens if you run freshclam on the console?

- Dietmar

 

[GWAdmin]

Other Problem with update via Proxy

Yes, the /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf looks exacty like the template, but (also in the template) i have 4 lines of spaces, is that maybe the failure??

i also did the proxyconfig -s

- Andreas

 

[dietmar]

So what exactly does not work? What happens if you run freshclam on the console? Is there something in the logs (/var/log/syslog)?

- Dietmar

 

[GWAdmin]

No Automtic freshclam

So what exactly does not work? What happens if you run freshclam on the console? Is there something in the logs (/var/log/syslog)?

- Dietmar

So, the updates runs correct, if i make it manually, only the automaic updates are not running

Manually Update:
Nov 23 11:59:03 freshclam Clamd successfully notified about the update.
Nov 23 11:59:03 freshclam Database updated (41270 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP:
81.223.20.171)
Nov 23 11:59:03 freshclam daily.cvd updated (version: 1185, sigs: 1645, f-level: 6, builder:
diego)
Nov 23 11:59:02 freshclam main.cvd is up to date (version: 34, sigs: 39625, f-level: 5,
builder: tkojm)
Nov 23 11:59:02 freshclam DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
Nov 23 11:59:02 freshclam WARNING: Local version: 0.87 Recommended version: 0.87.1
Nov 23 11:59:02 freshclam WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
Nov 23 11:59:02 freshclam ClamAV update process started at Wed Nov 23 11:59:02 2005
Nov 23 11:59:02 freshclam Daemon started.

Automatic update:
cant find any hint about automatic updates of freshclam

- Andreas

 

[dietmar]

freshclam runs as background service. To see if the service is running try:

ps -auxww|grep freshclam

or simply make sure the service is running by:

/etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam restart

does that help?

 

[GWAdmin]

freshclam runs as background service. To see if the service is running try:

ps -auxww|grep freshclam

or simply make sure the service is running by:

/etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam restart

does that help?

have done: seems to work because i have the "ClamAV update process started" in the logfile. Now i'll keep an eye on it and take a look in 1 hour

regards
Andreas

 

[GWAdmin]

AutoUpdate Has worked

Seems that it has worke, because i found the entry "ClamAV update process started" at 14:46 what measn, that is exact 1 hour after i had restarted the daemon :wink:

thanx for your Help
regard
Andreas


> Paß auf! Denn nur ein braver Hai
> ißt täglich seinen Haferbrei!

freshclam runs as background service. To see if the service is running try:

ps -auxww|grep freshclam

or simply make sure the service is running by:

/etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam restart

does that help?

have done: seems to work because i have the "ClamAV update process started" in the logfile. Now i'll keep an eye on it and take a look in 1 hour

regards
Andreas