Privoxy doesn't start on booting

Jim Jimmymac at copper.net
Tue Sep 21 06:37:05 UTC 2010


James Brown wrote:
> OS - Ubuntu 9.10 on a laptop
> Privoxy version 3.0.13
> Tor version 0.2.1.26
> 
> I have installed tor and privoxy and now I have the next problem.
> When I boot my system privoxy does not start as daemon and I need to
> start it manually (/etc/init.d/privoxy start).
> I have files with privoxy skripts in my /etc/rc1.d - /etc/rc5.d (named
> K20privoxy), I can see through sysv-rc-conf that it must start on 1
> level but it doesn't.

I am not sure how startd (what Ubuntu uses for process 1) might interact 
with this, but on traditional SysV systems, the services you want to run 
in a particular runlevel should start with "S" (for start) rather than 
than "K" (for kill = stop).

Jim
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