Privoxy under Fedora dying randomly

[Robert]

Beartooth wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a privoxy problem or a fedora problem; I run
> only fedora. (Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general).
> 
> Every once in a while, randomly afaict, privoxy dies on me. (At least now,
> since some recent update, Firefox says that, instead of just giving me a
> 404, as it used to and other browsers still do. Bravo Firefox! A 404 with
> an ISP notorious for unreliable connections is a much bigger pain.)
> 
> I go into Service Configuration and tell privoxy to restart. Service
> Configuration appears to hang. Eventually I kill it -- and privoxy is
> running again. (I suppose I should use ps ax with grep instead; I haven't,
> so far, since this doesn't happen often enough to make my fingers learn
> that.)
> 
> I use privoxy out of the box (if we can still say that) -- never even go
> into the configuration files, and would have to dig to find them.
> 
> This began happening on my wife's machine, under FC4 iirc, and at first
> only on it. 
> 
> It's a minor problem, since it's readily remediable, but irritating. What
> should I do?
> 
I don't know what one SHOULD do but what I DO do (CentOS 4.3) is have
a root crontab entry run the following script every 2 minutes:

#!/bin/bash
#
XX=`/sbin/service privoxy status | grep "running"`
if [ -z "$XX" ]; then
  /sbin/service privoxy restart >/dev/null ;
fi
exit 0

Right or wrong, it works.