After installing privoxy I started it up and, after directing my browser to run through it as a proxy, I was presented with an error saying the following
"There is no Internet connection
There is something wrong with the proxy server, or the address is incorrect."
Fair enough, I decided to check the log file and see what is going on, but there is absolutely nothing in the log file.
Upon checking the config file, I see that I have the following settings
...
logdir /var/log/privoxy
logfile logfile
debug 1 # Log the destination for each request Privoxy let through. See also debug 1024.
debug 1024 # Actions that are applied to all sites and maybe overruled later on.
debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings
debug 8192 # Non-fatal errors
...
Alright, so it says that is should be logging to the file logfile in the directory /var/log/privoxy. I check the permissions and find
drwxr-xr-x 2 privoxy privoxy 4096 Jan 31 16:18 privoxy
So it's not a permissions issue. I have uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. I have no idea why it isn't working. It is logging to the system journal but I hate having to dig through that for stuff.
For context, I am running Arch Linux.
I found that if I manually start it via
sudo privoxy --user privoxy --no-daemon /etc/privoxy/config
that it runs just fine. So I have determined it is a systemd issue. Below is the default systemd file
[Unit]
Description=Privoxy Web Proxy With Advanced Filtering Capabilities
After=network.target
[Service]
User=privoxy
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/privoxy --no-daemon /etc/privoxy/config
PrivateDevices=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
