update-squidguard(1)

✨ update-squidguard — the glow-up your blocklists deserve ✨

okay bestie, this is update-squidguard, straight out of the SquidGuard documentation (that's the manual name, iykyk) 🦋 — and she's a little shell script with main character energy 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

update-squidguard — the update script for SquidGuard. that's it, that's the job 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

update-squidguard

no args, no drama. she just goes. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: this script does a full database rebuild for every single blacklist listed in the default SquidGuard config file, which lives at /etc/squid/squidGuard.conf. 🗂️

and then — because she's not gonna leave you hanging — once the databases are rebuilt, she reloads Squid / Squid3 so they actually pick up the fresh new lists. no stale blocklists in this house. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v | --verbose — spills a little more tea ☕: shows you extra information and switches on the progress bar while the database is updating. so you can watch it cook. 👀
• -c | --checkdb — checks the Berkeley DB version, and only rebuilds the full database if the Berkeley DB version has changed. bestie, use this one right after you upgrade squidguard — it saves you from a wasteful, boring wait time. 💀

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💜 COPYRIGHT and LICENSE 💜

Copyright (c) 2003 Ivan E. Moore II

Copyright (c) 2010-2024 Joachim Wiedorn, Germany

this script is free software — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. 🫶

and heads up: on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 lives at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. periodt. 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

update-squidguard was written by Ivan E. Moore II and updated by Joachim Wiedorn. 🫡

this manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <joodebian at joonet.de> for the Debian project (and may be used by others). iconic behavior, honestly. 🎀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

squidGuard(1), squid(1), sgclean(1), hostbyname(1) — go read the siblings, they're all in the family group chat 💬

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Version 1.6 — dated 2024-04-03. that's the version and the date bestie, and that's a wrap on update-squidguard(1) 💖 thanks for coming to my ted talk, now go rebuild those databases 🧚✨