Privoxy keeps dying under YDL4 on my wife's machine (a 2002 G3 iBook). I've asked about that on both gmane.linux.yellowdog.general and gmane.comp.web.privoxy.user, but had no responses.
So if I can't cure it, at least maybe there's an easier fix. I hope there's one that doesn't require her to come get me, nor to become root. The only way I know to restart privoxy -- the way I found out what was happening the first time -- is Main Menu > System Settings > Server Settings > Services. At that point it asks for root's password. Even if she kept the password (and she doesn't want to), she'd have to go through the list, find privoxy, do the right thing, close the window back down, etc., etc. Is there some command line method, and a permission I can add that will enable her just to up-arrow from a prompt in a terminal till she recognizes it, and then hit enter? If so, how? Man service and man service start got me nowhere, and man service start privoxy just put me into man privoxy -- which is way over my head. I'd guess something in man privoxy or in /etc/privoxy somewhere may tell the initiated, but there's nothing either place that I can make head or tail of, alas! And how about permissions? Will root need to set permission for her for the requisite command? If so, how? Permissions are one of the things I haven't gotten to yet.... She gets into her remote email, with ssh to the remote machine where she runs pine (whose basic commands her fingers know), by just hitting the up arrow till she spots the command she wants. (She seldom if ever makes any use of her shell at all, except to ssh into remote email.) It works fine. But there are no permission questions there, and I do know the ssh command. -- Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1&2, YDL4 Pine 4.62, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.1; Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0 Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
