Privoxy doesn't start on booting

James Brown jbrownfirst at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 05:38:34 UTC 2010


Gitano wrote:
> On 2010-11-01 19:47, James Brown wrote:
> 
>> I have the next recordes in my logs of the privoxy:
>>> Nov 01 16:16:53.541 7f2ec27fa6f0 Info: Privoxy version 3.0.13
>>> Nov 01 16:16:53.567 7f2ec27fa6f0 Info: Program name: /usr/sbin/privoxy
>>> Nov 01 16:16:53.572 7f2ec27fa6f0 Info: Listening on port 8118 on IP address localhost
>>> Nov 01 16:16:53.572 7f2ec27fa6f0 Error: Can not resolve localhost: Name or service not known
>>> Nov 01 16:16:53.572 7f2ec27fa6f0 Fatal error: can't bind to localhost:8118: The hostname is not resolvable
> 
> Please try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost' and/or check '/etc/hosts'.
> 
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/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       hostname


There is the next record in the /etc/privoxy/config :
listen-address  localhost:8118

I think I need change localhost to ip-address of that, i.e. 127.0.0.1,
am I right?

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