privoxy install v 3.0.12 needs default.action.master copied to default.action (Re: macports-users Digest, Vol 38, Issue 12)

Tue Oct 13 11:45:30 PDT 2009

Hello Peter,

I too was puzzled. The daemon would immediately exit. I ran it from  
the command line and found that the configuration wasn't quite complete.

Hint: to run it from the terminal window:
    1. cd /opt/local/etc/privoxy
    2. make the files in that directory readable and executable
    3. simply run it from the shell:
        privoxy --no-daemon

What I found was that the macports build script does not do a step the  
privoxy installer does, backup the "default.action" and copy  
default.action.master over default.action.

So, I downloaded the 3.0.12 source for privoxy, untar'd it, and copied  
the default.action.master file into /opt/local/etc/privoxy/ 
default.action

I found this out when Snow Leopard became the hot topic, and I  
neglected to write a ticket on this.  Some action needs to be taken to  
get it to start up without this manual configuration twiddling.

I'm at a loss what the correct build script action should be. At a  
minimum it should copy default.action.master to /opt/local/etc/privoxy  
and give the user a clue that it needs renaming to default.action

Any other ideas on how to resolve this from others more experienced  
with macports?

David

On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:00 AM, macports-users- 
request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:04:20 +0100 (CET)
> From: Peter Krefting <peter at softwolves.pp.se>
> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: MacPorts privoxy and autostart on Snow Leopard
> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910121504050.1694 at ds9.cixit.se>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> Hi!
>
> I switched my Privoxy installation over to use the MacPorts version  
> because I
> had problems autostarting the "official" Mac version after upgrading  
> to Leopard
> and Snow Leopard (I hacked around the autostart on Leopard, but it  
> stopped
> working again).
>
> After installing the version from MacPorts, it doesn't seem to  
> autostart
> either, though. I am probably missing something vital here, and would
> appreciate if someone could point me to how to set it up to  
> autostart (starting
> on boot as a special "privoxy" user).
>
> Thank you in advance,
> -- 
> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:21:51 -0500
> From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> To: Peter Krefting <peter at softwolves.pp.se>
> Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: Re: MacPorts privoxy and autostart on Snow Leopard
> Message-ID: <02181DBE-8EDD-49EB-A997-F9D7484AA0E4 at macports.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 09:04, Peter Krefting wrote:
>
>> I switched my Privoxy installation over to use the MacPorts version
>> because I had problems autostarting the "official" Mac version after
>> upgrading to Leopard and Snow Leopard (I hacked around the autostart
>> on Leopard, but it stopped working again).
>>
>> After installing the version from MacPorts, it doesn't seem to
>> autostart either, though. I am probably missing something vital
>> here, and would appreciate if someone could point me to how to set
>> it up to autostart (starting on boot as a special "privoxy" user).
>
> What have you tried so far? Have you loaded the launchd plist? If so,
> what command did you use to do that?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:05:32 -0500
> From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> To: Fabrizio Bartolomucci <fbartolom at gmail.com>
> Cc: MacPorts Users <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>
> Subject: Re: Path problems
> Message-ID: <B02C8AA1-EB62-4B26-B323-12992EAA8D17 at macports.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:02, Fabrizio Bartolomucci wrote:
>
>> Ryan Schmidt ha scritto:
>>>
>>
>>> On Oct 12, 2009, at 08:28, Rainer M?ller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seems like you do not have Xcode installed which is a requirement
>>>> for
>>>> MacPorts. Please see <http://guide.macports.org/#installing.xcode>
>>>
>>> Or if you do have Xcode installed, then perhaps you unchecked the
>>> Unix Development checkbox in the Xcode installer package. If so,
>>> reinstall Xcode, and do not deselect that checkbox, because it
>>> installs /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 and other components required by MacPorts.
>>
>
>> Actually I did nothing but installing Snow Leopard to discover
>> MacPorts did not like it so much...
>
> MacPorts works great with Snow Leopard. Maybe you didn't upgrade your
> Xcode to version 3.2? You need to do that. The Xcode 3.2 installer
> package is on the Snow Leopard DVD.
>
>
> P.S: Don't forget to use Reply All so your reply goes to the list too,
> not just to me.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:10:50 +0200
> From: Damien Clauzel <Damien at Clauzel.nom.fr>
> To: MacPorts Users <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>
> Subject: Re: MacPorts privoxy and autostart on Snow Leopard
> Message-ID: <2B29EFF2-0120-4AAE-9B69-057E69E89057 at Clauzel.nom.fr>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> Le 12 oct. 2009 ? 16:04, Peter Krefting a ?crit :
>
>> I switched my Privoxy installation over to use the MacPorts version
>> because I had problems autostarting the "official" Mac version after
>> upgrading to Leopard and Snow Leopard (I hacked around the autostart
>> on Leopard, but it stopped working again).
>
> I am using this plist for launchd.
>
> It lives in /Library/LaunchDaemons/fr.nom.Clauzel.privoxy.plist and
> starts automatically privoxy on startup.
>
> ___
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
> ">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>
> 	<key>Label</key>
> 		<string>fr.nom.Clauzel.privoxy</string>
>
> 	<key>OnDemand</key>
> 		<false/>
>
> 	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
> 	<array>
> 		<string>/opt/local/sbin/privoxy</string>
> 		<string>--no-daemon</string>
> 		<string>/opt/local/etc/privoxy/config</string>
> 	</array>
>
> 	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
> 		<true/>
>
> 	<key>UserName</key>
> 		<string>privoxy</string>
> 	<key>GroupName</key>
> 		<string>privoxy</string>
>
> 	<key>ServiceDescription</key>
> 		<string>dClauzel privoxy serveur</string>
> </dict>
> </plist>
> ___
>
> I know that some people use daemondo, but I have never see the point
> of using this tool for managing processes; launched does everything
> that is needed.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Damien

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