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Why does Privoxy needs a restart at boot?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5885 / 1 Year ago, thu, february 2, 2023, 1:42:53

I have an Ubuntu 10.04 installed and I installed Privoxy:

apt-get install -y privoxy

Okay, it works great with my rules, fine.

When I boot up my desktop PC I can see that Privoxy is started, it runs, great.
But when I want to view webpages through it it doesn't work (error loading page).

But if i restart the privoxy with

service privoxy restart

then it works!

What could the problem be? Why do I have to restart Privoxy after every boot?

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answered 1 Year ago warrdel · Accepted Answer

It likely that Privoxy did not start successfully because it started before the Network interface was initialised - there is a similar bug report with Fedora.

Suggestion 1

Starting privoxy was also discussed on Ubuntu Forums.

Have a look at the file /var/log/privoxy

If there is an error in the file that looks like "Fatal error: can't bind to localhost:8118: The hostname is not resolvable" then change the listen-address in the privoxy configuration file /etc/privoxy/config.

i.e. change "listen-address localhost:8118" to be "listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118"

Suggestion 2

The author of the Fedora bug report suggested adding the following line of text to /etc/rc.local i.e. add it before "exit 0" not after it.

/bin/sleep 20 && /etc/init.d/privoxy start