Here's a couple of Newbie questions...

[sellenwood]

Evening, all.

My searches have turned up empty-handed, so I was hoping to get you all to do my work for me! <g>

There are two things I'd desperately like to do
1) Block by word (sites that have certain words in their headers... Hentai, Boob, etc.) and

2) Clear my Event Logs.

I promise, I've looked far & wide, but perhaps I simply need new glasses (or a stiff drink!)

Any assistance would be most helpful.

Scott Ellenwood
Lake Havasu City, AZ
sellen at aol dot com

[dmorris]

Welcome! :D

1) Theres no way to scan by keyword currently, although I just added that as a request for enhancement.

2) There's also no way to clear the eventlog (that is without clearing the database)
The eventlog is basically just a view into the database. I suppose we could add a feature that allows you to only view the events since some time (like the last time you hit clear) which would achieve the same effect. What do you think?

[dmorris]

#1 has been filed : RFE 2910
#2 has been filed : RFE 2911

[sellenwood]

Wow! A place that not only listens to its Citizens, but takes (valid) suggestions seriously? :::THUD:::

Thanks, though. If you can help w/the two issues, it'd be one more step towards Nirvana. Ok, maybe just a little-smaller ulcer, but to each their own.

Regards,

Scott Ellenwood
Lake Havasu City, AZ
sellen at aol dot com
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[Tammy]

Just curious, why do you want to clear your Event Logs?



There are two things I'd desperately like to do
...

2) Clear my Event Logs.

[sellenwood]

I've always kept a close eye on the sites my clients (users) sites (inbout & outbound), so after a while I like to take everything, shove it into its own little file & clear the log so I don't see all the stuff I've already seen. Otherwise, the logs grow to INCREDIBLE sizes and it can be a real Pain in the Keester.
"I'm sorry Mr. CEO, but you can't surf the web because our firewall is down due to the size of the logs." Not good.

As for the current logs, the other response noted that what we see in, say, the Web Content log (Blocked, All, etc.) is JUST a peek into the FULL system log. Well, that's all fine & dandy, but it'd be nice if I could click on a Date Range to view, sort it, look for anomalies, and if all's fine CLEAR the darned thing.

I'm hoping that in (the Mythical) v5.0 we'll also be able to tell it "please ignore (DO NOT LOG) requests outbound to the following url:" . One good reason why is Amazon's UNBOX. The *&%#@*!! software is CONSTANTLY saying "do you have an update?" "anything new for me?" etc etc etc etc etc and there doesn't seem to be a way (within THAT software) to say "YO! ONLY check Once per day, you twit!!" Otherwise, when I view the full log i get a TON of blahblah.amazon.com crud.

And while I'm on my high horse / soapbox / whatever, Here's the reiteration of an idea: When viewing a log, Let us Double Click on an entry, then open a web browser and TAKE US TO that page. That way, the admin can actually SEE where his/her people are going. Yaa, I know, wait for Five, etc... ;)
(And while they're at it, can they put the standard BACK , FORWARD and HOME buttons on this darned thing on the firewall box???? It IS Firefox, so it seems that either they've just removed them or my setup isn't as complete as I hoped.)


Thanks for listening everyone. Can't wait to Beta v5 - Y'all better get new glasses (you'll have a LOT of reading to do once the bug reports start coming in!!).

Regards,

[dmorris]

the back, forward, address stuff is coming back in the local browser in ... you guessed it. 5.0 :P

No way to tell it to ignore certain sites - it logs all stuff in the database.
Even if we implement clear and date ranges - it probably won't clear the database of events (this happens automatically on an as-needed basis). It will just restrict what you see (so it has the same effect)

[john_s]

I support a small YWCA organization and blocking web sites by wildcards would be very desireable, such as:

*youtube*

so that any url containing 'youtube' would be blocked.

can the software be updated by tomorrow ?;)

[dmorris]

actually if you just enter "youtube.com" that is the same as "*.youtube.com/*"

[john_s]

Thanks; I'm pretty sure I tried that but I'll check later. I'm quite sure that that syntax did not block a site such as:
www.topyoutubevideos.com

[gotkimchi]

john_s, you are correct. Currently, the Untangle will not allow keyword blocking on the URLs. If you block youtube.com it will block anything.youtube.com The topyoutubevideos.com is not youtube.com, that is why it is unblocked at this time. You can add them in the manual block URLs tab off the untangle.

[john_s]

Thanks gotkimchi! Could wildcard url blocking be submitted to development team for consideration in a future release ? I'd be great!

[dmorris]

Thanks gotkimchi! Could wildcard url blocking be submitted to development team for consideration in a future release ? I'd be great!

Filed as RFE3046 :D
http://bugzilla.untangle.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3046

[luttermann]

This would be a very handy feature. Any ETA of the feature?

[donhwyo]

Try KB shortcut for forward back. I think alt and arrow keys work. I cant test now but I think I would have noticed if they didn't work. I use them all the time.

Don