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an ad- and malware-blocking script for Linux
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hostsblock-0.999.2-1: same version, 2 different scripts and results #45

Closed tukoz closed 9 years ago

tukoz commented 9 years ago

hostsblock-0.999.2-1 is installed on two of my machines running Arch; are up-to-date, AUR included (as of yesterday). hostsblock (and dnsmask) conf files are identical on both machines. It works on box One does but not on the other.

box One With DNS caching on, hosts.block is updated and so on, single issue:

oct. 29 00:03:35 One hostsblock[3169]: gzip: invalid option -- 'z'
oct. 29 00:03:35 One hostsblock[3169]: Try `gzip --help' for more information.
oct. 29 00:03:38 One hostsblock[3169]: sort: write failed: standard output: Broken pipe
oct. 29 00:03:38 One hostsblock[3169]: sort: write error

from line 210 in /usr/bin/hostsblock --which is absent from the same version script on box Zero ~8-|

Box Zero With DNS caching ON, hostsblock exit and hosts.block file is not updated

oct. 29 00:00:01 Zero hostsblock[13141]: [FATAL] NO VIABLE DNSCACHER CONFIGURATION FOUND. EXITING...
oct. 29 00:00:01 Zero systemd[1]: hostsblock.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
oct. 29 00:00:01 Zero systemd[1]: Failed to start Block bad domains system-wide.
oct. 29 00:00:01 Zero systemd[1]: hostsblock.service: Unit entered failed state.
oct. 29 00:00:01 Zero systemd[1]: hostsblock.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I tripled checked if dnsmasq.conf are identical between the two boxes and they are.

But I noted /usr/bin/hostsblock differ consequently. pacman -Qi says both are v0.999.2-1, with a different size ?#-|

For the moment I changed hostsblock on box One to run without DNS caching, and it runs. Though it still checks dnsmask: /usr/bin/hostsblock

[INFO] Auto-detecting dnscaching settings...
[INFO] DNSMASQ does NOT have the correct 'listen-address' entry.
[INFO] DNSMASQ incorrectly configured.
[INFO] Checking blocklists for updates...

I suspect a script change forgetting to update version. What's your suggestion?

tukoz commented 9 years ago

I confirm that hostsblock-0.999.3-1 still has a geek, hard to read rc file and... that it runs fine on the boxes I have it kissing my Web surf :) No more script diffs or issues since October 30th.

gaenserich commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure whether to interpret this as a generally happy response or otherwise...

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2015-11-02 19:34 GMT-05:00 Kozaki notifications@github.com:

I confirm that hostsblock-0.999.3-1 still has a geek, hard to read rc file and... that it runs fine on the boxes I have it kissing my Web surf :) No more script diffs or issues since October 30th.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/gaenserich/hostsblock/issues/45#issuecomment-153203989 .

tukoz commented 9 years ago

Look it twice, "runs fine" and the happy smiley should clear your doubt. Not even counting "No more script diffs or issues"