TOR and privoxy : argh ![SOLVED]

[sebastien]

I've still got the error message but changed the privoxy config file
and that works, adding forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
I must have had type mismatched because I had seen that including this
line was bothering. In fact, no !


On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:03:37 +0200
sebastien <scamot2004 at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hi everyone !
> Looks like I'm stuck.
> I installed TOR and PRIVOXY available in the dapper repositories.
> 
> * I had to change the tor dir permisssions (from TOR to me, user) in
> order to make it work !
> * Installing privoxy OK but
> a) I had to move its /etc/privoxy/config to my home directory, if not
> it was not able to start
> b) it does not work and the error is :
> Jun 19 11:46:40 Privoxy(b7e1b6c0) Info: loading configuration file
> '/home/seb/config':
> Jun 19 11:46:40 Privoxy(b7e1b6c0) Fatal error: init_error_log(): can't
> open logfile: logfile
> Jun 19 11:46:40 Privoxy(b7e1b6c0) Fatal error: init_error_log(): can't
> open logfile: logfile
> 
> 
> ... while the file exists and is readable and worse : logs are written
> in that file (logs of my web traffic). but the proxy does not work,
> while firefox tor plugin is enabled.
> 
> Log in the TOR logfile is :
> Jun 19 10:20:44.501 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit.
> Looks like it's working.
> Jun 19 11:42:58.447 [warn] Couldn't
> open /var/lib/tor/cached-directory.tmp for writing: Permission denied
> Jun 19 11:42:58.465 [notice] dirserv_set_cached_directory(): Couldn't
> write cached directory to disk. Ignoring.
> 
> 
> Has anyone had the same problem ?
> It's a real pain because under W2K MS$$, the install and config of TOR
> took me approx. 2min... with the vidalia bundle.
> 
>