dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly

First, I want to make sure that it is known how appreciative I am for all of the help that I have received from "towsonu2003". Second, I am a volunteer to the Computers For Families (CFF) program www.sbcff.org , as part of the IBM On Demand Community program, that is offering free computers to elementary school students in order to erase the digital divide in Santa Barbara. Last, the CFF program mission is simply "a computer for every child who can't afford one". We want to replace Windows 2000 with Edubuntu on the donated computers, therefore, we need to replace the Windows only content filter, that is donated by Cybersitter, with DansGuardian.

at least apt-get needs to throw out a dialogue helping the user set up dansguardian initially.

Unsubscribing Desktop Bugs team.

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for the email to report that the DansGuardian bug 65533 "importance"
status has been changed from undecided to medium. If you were not able to see
my comments that were added after the bug was reported, they were as follows:

+ First, I want to make sure that it is known how appreciative I am for
+ all of the help that I have received from "towsonu2003". Second, I am a
+ volunteer to the Computers For Families (CFF) program www.sbcff.org , as
+ part of the IBM On Demand Community program, that is offering free
+ computers to elementary school students in order to erase the digital
+ divide in Santa Barbara. Last, the CFF program mission is simply "a
+ computer for every child who can't afford one". We want to replace
+ Windows 2000 with Edubuntu on the donated computers, therefore, we need
+ to replace the Windows only content filter, that is donated by
+ Cybersitter, with DansGuardian.

Twenty systems with Edubuntu 6.06 were distributed to elementary students last
month. Therefore, it is very important that the DansGuardian content filter be
installed on these systems as soon as possible.

Thank you, again.

Milt

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Quoting Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>:

> Unsubscribing Desktop Bugs team.
>
> ** Changed in: dansguardian (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> --
> dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533
>

Hello Daniel,

Would it be possible for me to beta test the solution for this bug? If so, this
would expedite the addition of a content filter to the 20 Edubuntu systems that
have already been given to the elementary shcool students.

Milt
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Quoting Computer For Families <email address hidden>:

>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for the email to report that the DansGuardian bug 65533
> "importance"
> status has been changed from undecided to medium. If you were not able to
> see
> my comments that were added after the bug was reported, they were as
> follows:
>
> + First, I want to make sure that it is known how appreciative I am for
> + all of the help that I have received from "towsonu2003". Second, I am a
> + volunteer to the Computers For Families (CFF) program www.sbcff.org , as
> + part of the IBM On Demand Community program, that is offering free
> + computers to elementary school students in order to erase the digital
> + divide in Santa Barbara. Last, the CFF program mission is simply "a
> + computer for every child who can't afford one". We want to replace
> + Windows 2000 with Edubuntu on the donated computers, therefore, we need
> + to replace the Windows only content filter, that is donated by
> + Cybersitter, with DansGuardian.
>
> Twenty systems with Edubuntu 6.06 were distributed to elementary students
> last
> month. Therefore, it is very important that the DansGuardian content filter
> be
> installed on these systems as soon as possible.
>
> Thank you, again.
>
> Milt
>
> =======
> Quoting Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>:
>
> > Unsubscribing Desktop Bugs team.
> >
> > ** Changed in: dansguardian (Ubuntu)
> > Importance: Undecided => Medium
> >
> > --
> > dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> > https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533
> >
>
> --
> dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533
>

advice needed: should I subscribe the edubuntu team, or should I leave this alone now?

also see my email at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2006-October/001868.html to edubuntu-devel (linking for reference *only*)

In respose to your request for advice, I have included my most recent email to
Daniel, on the Edubuntu team. If you can help me to expidite resolution of my
problem providing a content filter for the elementary school students it would
be great.

Milt
<email address hidden>
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Quoting towsonu2003 <email address hidden>:

> advice needed: should I subscribe the edubuntu team, or should I leave
> this alone now?
>
> also see my email at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-
> devel/2006-October/001868.html to edubuntu-devel (linking for reference
> *only*)
>
> --
> dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533

==========
Hello Daniel,

Would it be possible for me to beta test the solution for this bug? If so, this
would expedite the addition of a content filter to the 20 Edubuntu systems that
have already been given to the elementary shcool students.

Milt
==========
Quoting Computer For Families <email address hidden>:

>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for the email to report that the DansGuardian bug 65533
> "importance"
> status has been changed from undecided to medium. If you were not able to
> see
> my comments that were added after the bug was reported, they were as
> follows:
>
> + First, I want to make sure that it is known how appreciative I am for
> + all of the help that I have received from "towsonu2003". Second, I am a
> + volunteer to the Computers For Families (CFF) program www.sbcff.org , as
> + part of the IBM On Demand Community program, that is offering free
> + computers to elementary school students in order to erase the digital
> + divide in Santa Barbara. Last, the CFF program mission is simply "a
> + computer for every child who can't afford one". We want to replace
> + Windows 2000 with Edubuntu on the donated computers, therefore, we need
> + to replace the Windows only content filter, that is donated by
> + Cybersitter, with DansGuardian.
>
> Twenty systems with Edubuntu 6.06 were distributed to elementary students
> last
> month. Therefore, it is very important that the DansGuardian content filter
> be
> installed on these systems as soon as possible.
>
> Thank you, again.
>
> Milt
>
> =======
> Quoting Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>:
>
> > Unsubscribing Desktop Bugs team.
> >
> > ** Changed in: dansguardian (Ubuntu)
> > Importance: Undecided => Medium
> >
> > --
> > dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> > https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533
> >
>
> --
> dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533
>

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dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533

>

I just unsubscribed the desktop-bugs team, as it was no Desktop related bug. Unfortunately I have no experience with dansguardian whatsoever.

Does this mean that no one is working on my bug?

Milt

Quoting Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>:

> I just unsubscribed the desktop-bugs team, as it was no Desktop related
> bug. Unfortunately I have no experience with dansguardian whatsoever.
>
> --
> dansguardian installation / configuration not user friendly
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/65533
>

I can reproduce this bug. It occurs because the lists files don't exist.

I'm not sure whether you are supposed to create those yourself or to get them from some external source. I need to setup dansguardian myself for a community computer center, so I'll look further into this and see what I can find.

So it seems that per the DansGuardian website, the blacklist is something that you have to pay a subscription for - see http://dansguardian.org/?page=blacklist

Seems you can download this one time from URLBlacklist.com for free, but if you need it on an ongoing basis, you'll need to purchase a subscription or find some other way of maintaining the blacklist.