Add a note about changing the listen-address in privoxy's conf
Sebastian Hahn

Sebastian Hahn commited on 2009-08-25 03:39:45
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Using the default config leads to problems at least on Debian Squeeze,
I suppose some Ubuntus will have the same issue.
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@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ to the top of the config file. <b>Don't forget to add the dot at the end of
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 the line.</b>
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 </p>
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+<p>
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+On some distributions, localhost is mapped to an IPv6 address, and Torbutton
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+(see next step) might not be able to connect to Privoxy. If this is the case,
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+change "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in the line <br />
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+<tt>listen-address localhost:8118</tt><br />
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+so that it now reads
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+<tt>listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118</tt>.
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+</p>
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+
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 <p>Privoxy keeps a log file of everything passed through it.  In
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 order to stop this you will need to comment out three lines by inserting a
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 \# before the line. The three lines are:<br />
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