X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=18ec2724f51b319cd097977a75cd6b20c66f8b32;hb=2ea1d9fa1e83686e3f642c23445ea160f6fd3511;hp=25a10fbb17c16c07ddbdf2a4af43fabc77331e55;hpb=3876cfc1abb8cc06494fb6243c9af549ee5b5a7f;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 25a10fbb..18ec2724 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,7 +1,42 @@ -########## PRIVOXY INSTALL ############# - -For more info after the install, configure and use refer to the README in the -same dir as the INSTALL +/********************************************************************* + * + * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/install.sgml,v $ + * + * Purpose : INSTALL file to help with installing from source. + * + * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001,2002 the SourceForge + * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/ + * + * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written + * by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and + * Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it + * and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General + * Public License as published by the Free Software + * Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at + * your option) any later version. + * + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will + * be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the + * implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A + * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public + * License for more details. + * + * The GNU General Public License should be included with + * this file. If not, you can view it at + * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html + * or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 + * Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + * + *********************************************************************/ + + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +This file describes installing Privoxy from source. If you are installing a +pre-built binary installation, you should probably read the appropriate section +in User Manual. To build Privoxy from source, autoconf, GNU make (gmake), and, of course, a C compiler like gcc are required. @@ -23,60 +58,97 @@ tested. To download CVS source: This will create a directory named current/, which will contain the source tree. -you can too check any privoxy branch, just change the "current" name with the -wanted branch name (Example: v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree) - -you should create the user and group that privoxy will run, the default is -"privoxy" for both +You can also check out any Privoxy "branch", just exchange the current name +with the wanted branch name (Example: v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree). -you can change the user and group with --with-user= and --with-group= in the -./configure step +It is also strongly recommended to not run Privoxy as root, and instead it is +suggested to create a "privoxy" user and group for this purpose. See your local +documentation for the correct command line to do this. -the user and group should have the login disabled for better safety +/etc/passwd might then look like: -here is my /etc/passwd entry + privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell -privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell +And then /etc/group, like: -and my /etc/group entry + privoxy:*:7777: -privoxy:*:7777:privoxy +Some binary packages may do this for you. -Then, in either case, to build from unpacked tarball or CVS source: +Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source: autoheader autoconf - ./configure # (--help to see options, see the warning below) - make # (the make from gnu, gmake for *BSD) + ./configure # (--help to see options) + make # (the make from GNU, sometimes called gmake) su make -n install # (to see where all the files will go) - make install # (to really install) + make -s install # (to really install, -s to silence output) -If you have gnu make, you can have the first four steps automatically done for +If you have GNU make, you can have the first four steps automatically done for you by just typing: - make + make in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory. -** WARNING ** - -1- if you are installing in /usr/local or / (root) the use of - - --sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/privoxy - -is recommended for a safer (there may already exist other program that uses a -file with the "config" name) and cleaner and easier to use etc dir - -2- for user install dont forget to give the --with-user and --with-group equal -to the current user or tune things later - -** END OF WARNING ** +WARNING: If installing as root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or +group is specified, or a privoxy user and group already exist on the system. If +a non-root user is specified, and no group, then the installation will try to +also use a group of the same name as "user". If a group is specified (and no +user), then the support files will be installed as writable by that group, and +owned by the user running the installation. + +configure accepts --with-user and --with-group options for setting user and +group ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable by the +daemon). The specified user must already exist. When starting Privoxy, it +should be run as this same user to insure write access to configuration and log +files. + +Alternately, you can specify user and group on the make command line, but be +sure both already exist: + + make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy + +The default installation path for make install is /usr/local. This may of +course be customized with the various ./configure path options. If you are +doing a root install to anywhere else besides /usr/local, be sure to set the +appropriate paths with the correct configure options (./configure --help). + +If you do install to /usr/local, the install will use sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/ +privoxy by default. All other destinations, and the direct usage of +--sysconfdir flag behave like normal, i.e. will not add the extra privoxy +directory. This is for a safer install, as there may already exist another +program that uses a file with the "config" name, and thus makes /usr/local/etc +cleaner. + +If installing to /usr/local, the docs will go by default to $prefix/share/doc. +But if this directory doesn't exist, it will then try $prefix/doc and install +there before creating a new $prefix/share/doc just for Privoxy. + +Again, if the installs goes to /usr/local, the localstatedir (ie: var/) will +default to /var instead of $prefix/var so the logs will go to /var/log/privoxy +/, and the pid file will be created in /var/run/privoxy.pid. + +make install will attempt to set the correct values in config (main +configuration file). You may want to check this to make sure all values are +correct. If appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to the +user to determine how and where to start Privoxy. The init script should be +checked for correct paths and values, if anything other than a default install +is done. + +If install finds previous versions of any configuration files, these will not +be overwritten, and the new ones will be installed with a "new" extension. You +will then need to manually update the installed configuration files as needed. +All template files will be overwritten. If you have customized, local +templates, you should save these first. If a previous version of Privoxy is +already running, you will have to restart it manually. For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat and SuSE RPMs, Windows self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special requirements etc, please consult the developer manual. -For binary RPM installation, and other platforms, see the user-manual as well. +The simplest command line to start Privoxy is $path/privoxy --user=privoxy +$path/etc/privoxy/config. See privoxy --usage, or the man page, for other +options, and configuration. -Now go read the README to learn what should you do next