I'm using ClearOS 5.2 as an Internet gateway for my network, and also using DansGuardian. Everything was working fine, until it stopped working.

The hardware I was using was too slow for the load, so I built a new box and (looking at some suggestions here) pulled the hard drive from the old server and put it into the new one as a way of preserving my configuration. Everything started fine, just had to reassign the NICs. Except that now the proxy server won't start. And without that, DansGuardian won't run.

I've shutdown and restarted several times. It's set to start automatically on a reboot, but no luck. Clicking start doesn't start the service. Tried clearing the proxy cache, changing the settings, etc. No go.

I can access the internet fine with the proxy server off and transparent mode off, but long-term I want the content filter running.

I checked the logs from the ClearOS GUI, but don't find any references to some kind of error that is preventing the service from starting up. I might try restoring the settings from my backup, but that seems unlikely to work since the gateway is basically working properly, except for this one thing.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Charlie