privoxy logfile on F9 and F10
Dave Feustel
dfeustel at mindspring.com
Tue Nov 18 12:18:06 UTC 2008
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:55:46AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I upgraded a couple of my computers from F8 to F9 the other day and have
> discovered that Privoxy no longer updates its logfile.
>
> /etc/privoxy/config contains the following lines, both of which are uncommented.
>
> logdir /var/log/privoxy
> logfile logfile
>
> However, as you can see here, the last time the privoxy logfile was updated was
> on November 3, when I updated this machine from F8 to F9.
>
> [root at mutt log]# ls -ld privoxy
> drwx--x--x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 2008-03-05 06:43 privoxy
> [root at mutt log]# ls -l privoxy
> total 1220
> -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 585562 2008-11-03 17:45 logfile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 165643 2008-10-24 04:02 logfile-20081024.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 138819 2008-10-27 04:02 logfile-20081027.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 194770 2008-10-30 04:02 logfile-20081030.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 137054 2008-11-02 04:02 logfile-20081102.gz
>
> I also put F10-beta on my little Acer Aspire One laptop the other day and it,
> too, doesn't create any logfile in /var/log/privoxy. I got one entry from the
> day that I installed it saying that the configuration was incorrect, and nothing
> ever since then.
>
> So I now have two computers with F9 and one with F10 and none of them have
> privoxy doing any logging. Why?
I have the same problem on F9. Selunix policies are preventing privoxy's
access to the log file. There are messages about this in my sytem log
file. I don't know enough about Selunix to attempt a solution.
>
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