UFDBGCLIENT(8)

✨ UFDBGCLIENT(8) — the ufdbgclient manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real quick: this is the manual page for ufdbgclient, section 8 of the man pages, and it ships with Release 1.35. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ufdbgclient — a squid helper for ufdbguardd

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ufdbgclient [-l <logdir>] [-S <servername>] [-s unix|tcp] [-p <port>]
         [-C | -m <number-of-threads>]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. ufdbgclient is a helper program that sits between squid and ufdbguardd. That's it. That's the whole job description. The only purpose of ufdbgclient is to pass URL rewriter requests from squid over to the ufdbguardd daemon, and then pass the results right back. it's giving middleman, but make it useful 💅

ngl, ufdbgclient is normally not called from the command line — squid calls it directly. so if you're typing it out yourself, you're either debugging or being brave 🫶

Also bestie, heads up: there's an extensive Reference Manual for ufdbGuard with whole sections for installation and configuration. it's a whole thing, go read it, it ate.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -l <logdir> — tells it which directory to stash the log file ufdbgclient.log in. give the log a home 🏠
• -S <servername> — if ufdbguardd isn't running on the same system as you, drop the hostname of the server here. long-distance relationship, but it works 💜
• -s unix|tcp — picks the socket type. important: this has to match the socket-type in ufdbGuard.conf (whose default is unix) or it's just not gonna vibe. they have to be the same, no cap.
• -p <port> — the port number where ufdbguardd listens for ufdbgclient. default is 3977 🔥
• -m <number-of-threads> — tells ufdbgclient that the Squid parameter concurrency is set. ufdbgclient will then process the requests simultaneously using <number-of-threads> threads. multiprocessing main character energy 👑
• -C — also tells ufdbgclient that the Squid parameter concurrency is set, but this time ufdbgclient will queue the requests instead. and listen, the recommendation is to use -m instead of -C. like, they said it, not me 🙈

fr fr: -m and -C are alternatives — the synopsis literally shows [-C | -m <number-of-threads>], so pick a lane, bestie.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ufdbguardd(1)
• ReferenceManual_1_35.pdf
• https://www.urlfilterdb.com/downloads/software_doc.html

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

The developers of ufdbGuard for Squid — https://www.urlfilterdb.com

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅 Release 1.35, dated 22/03/2024, UFDBGCLIENT(8) — slay, go configure your squid, ily, bye 🎀✨