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<H1>PRIVOXY</H1>
-Section: (1)<BR>Updated: 08 April 2002<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
+Section: (1)<BR>Updated: 18 April 2002<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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Don't become a daemon, i.e. don't fork and become process group
leader, don't detach from controlling tty, and do all logging there.
<DT><B>--pidfile </B><I>pidfile</I><B></B><DD>
-After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of user
-and the GID of group, or, if the optional group was not given, the
-default group of user. Exit if the privileges are not sufficient to
-do so.
+On startup, write the process ID to <I>pidfile</I>.
+Delete the <I>pidfile</I> on exit.
+Failiure to create or delete the <I>pidfile</I>
+is non-fatal. If no <B>--pidfile</B> option is given, no PID file will be used.
<DT><B>--user </B><I>user[.group]</I><B></B><DD>
After (optionally) writing the PID file, assume the user ID of
<I>user</I> and the GID of
stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
<P>
-<B>Privoxy</B> is based on the code of the
-<B>Internet Junkbuster</B> (tm).
-<B>Junkbuster</B> was originally written by JunkBusters
-Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the GNU GPL.
-Stefan Waldherr made many improvements, and started the SourceForge project
-to continue development.
-<P>
-
-<B>Privoxy</B> continues the
-<B>Junkbuster</B> tradition, but adds many
-refinements, enhancements and new features.
+<B>Privoxy</B> is based on <B>Internet
+Junkbuster</B> (tm).
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<H2>INSTALLATION AND USAGE</H2>
<A HREF="http://config.privoxy.org">http://config.privoxy.org</A>
may work in some situations where the first does not.
<P>
+<A HREF="http://p.p/">http://p.p/</A>
+to submit ``misses'' to the developers.
+<P>
<A HREF="http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html">http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/cookies.html</A>
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/">http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/</A>
<P>
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- Stefan Waldherr
- Andreas Oesterhelt
Jon Foster
- Markus Breitenbach
+ Andreas Oesterhelt
+ Stefan Waldherr
Thomas Steudten
- David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
- Gabriel L. Somlo
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Hal Burgiss (docs)
+ Alexander Lazic
+ Gábor Lipták
+ Guy
Haroon Rafique
- John Venvertloh
+ David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
Joerg Strohmayer
- Rodney Stromlund
- Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Sarantis Paskalis
- Shamim Mohamed
- Gábor Lipták
- Alexander Lazic
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+Time: 15:21:38 GMT, April 18, 2002
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.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "11 April 2002" "Privoxy 2.9.14 beta" ""
+.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "18 April 2002" "Privoxy 2.9.14 beta" ""
.SH NAME
privoxy \- Privacy Enhancing Proxy
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBprivoxy\fR [\fB--help\fR] [\fB--version\fR] [\fB--no-daemon\fR] [\fB--pidfile \fIpidfile\fB\fR] [\fB--user \fIuser[.group]\fB\fR] [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR] (UNIX)
+\fBprivoxy\fR [\fB--help\fR] [\fB--version\fR] [\fB--no-daemon\fR] [\fB--pidfile \fIpidfile\fB\fR] [\fB--user \fIuser[.group]\fB\fR] [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR] \fB(UNIX)\fR
-\fBprivoxy.exe\fR [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR] (Windows)
+\fBprivoxy.exe\fR [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR] \fB(Windows)\fR
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
tastes. \fBPrivoxy\fR has application for both
stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
.PP
-\fBPrivoxy\fR is based on the code of the
-\fBInternet Junkbuster\fR (tm).
-\fBJunkbuster\fR was originally written by Junkbusters
-Corporation, and was released as free open-source software under the GNU GPL.
-Stefan Waldherr made many improvements, and started the SourceForge project
-to continue development.
-.PP
-\fBPrivoxy\fR continues the
-\fBJunkbuster\fR tradition, but adds many
-refinements, enhancements and new features.
+\fBPrivoxy\fR is based on \fBInternet
+Junkbuster\fR (tm).
.SH "INSTALLATION AND USAGE"
.PP
Browsers must be individually configured to use \fBPrivoxy\fR as
.SH "DEVELOPMENT TEAM"
.nf
- Stefan Waldherr
- Andreas Oesterhelt
Jon Foster
- Markus Breitenbach
+ Andreas Oesterhelt
+ Stefan Waldherr
Thomas Steudten
- David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
- Gabriel L. Somlo
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Hal Burgiss (docs)
+ Alexander Lazic
+ Gábor Lipták
+ Guy
Haroon Rafique
- John Venvertloh
+ David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
Joerg Strohmayer
- Rodney Stromlund
- Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Sarantis Paskalis
- Shamim Mohamed
- Gábor Lipták
- Alexander Lazic
.fi
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.PP