F9: privoxy can't access its log file

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Thu Oct 9 17:59:44 UTC 2008


On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:49:34 -0400
Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I installed privoxy in 64-bit f9. Privoxy cannot access the lof file in
> /var/log/privoxy. When I looked at the file permissions, owner/group
> were both set to root, so I set them to privoxy. That got rid of the
> original error message, but then a new error showed up about 4 lines
> down in the startup console output. I have no idea what this new
> error is. Privoxy still runs according to ps. Any ideas?

I'm pretty sure privoxy will work fine even if it can't access its log file.
You just won't get a log, of course.

The relevant permissions on this (F8) machine are:

drwx--x--x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 2008-10-08 04:02 /var/log/privoxy

-rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 509743 2008-10-09 11:39 logfile


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