On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 21:57, Terence Golightly wrote: > List, > > This is annoying little problem that one of you may have encountered > using privoxy. It won't start on startup/reboot or from a service start > under mcc or from the su commandline. I get the following message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /etc/init.d/privoxy start > Starting privoxy: Jun 22 16:50:59 Privoxy(1075490944) Info: loading > configuration file '/etc/privoxy/config': > Jun 22 16:50:59 Privoxy(1075490944) Fatal error: init_error_log(): can't > open logfile: /var/log/privoxy/logfile > Jun 22 16:50:59 Privoxy(1075490944) Fatal error: init_error_log(): can't > open logfile: /var/log/privoxy/logfile > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -l /var/log/privoxy > total 392 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 239346 Jun 22 16:01 jarfile > -rw-r----- 1 root root 10822 Jun 22 16:53 logfile > -rw-r----- 1 root root 139131 Jun 19 23:09 logfile.1.gz > > However, as you can see from below, that is starts up find from the su > terminal where it can find it's config file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# privoxy > Jun 22 16:53:04 Privoxy(1075490944) Info: loading configuration file > '/root/config': > > Is anybody familiar with a fix? > > Thanks, > > Terry >
Privoxy runs as user daemon, but your log file is owned by root, so privoxy can only access the log file when you run as root. Change the ownership of /var/log/privoxy to daemon and you will be OK. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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