Tor and Privoxy on Mac OS X 10.4.11

[Fox Mulder]

On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:20 AM  [ December 8 2007 ], phobos at rootme.org  
wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:04:53AM -0600, nil.bitbucket at gmail.com  
> wrote 0.7K bytes in 15 lines about:
> : I've been running the Tor, Torbutton, and Privoxy combo on Mac OS X
> : for a long time, but when I recently updated to 10.4.11, it stopped
> : working, even though it's supposed to start up automatically when I
> : login every day. All I got were error messages saying that Privoxy
> : was set to a host that wasn't responding.
>
> Do you happen to have these error messages? I too run 10.4.11 and
> haven't seen this problem.

No, they only appeared in the browser (Firefox and Camino) when I  
tried to connect to any site with Tor and Privoxy.
>
> : Finally I uninstalled it and installed the Tor, Privoxy, and Vidalia
> : package and it works, but I have to manually turn it on now, since
> : there are no startup scripts for Tor and Privoxy with that package.
>
> You can right click on Vidalia in the system tray and choose "Open at
> Login".  This will at least start up Tor and Vidalia automatically.

No, that would only start Tor when I start Vidalia. I'd have to make  
Vidalia a Login Item for it to start automatically.
>
> : Does anyone know what could be causing this problem, and how to fix
> : it? I hate using Vidalia when I know Tor and Privoxy can startup
> : automatically, and that's the setup I want to go back to and use.
>
> Do you have /Library/StartupItems/Privoxy/Privoxy?

Yes, I've got that.
>
>
> -- 
> Andrew