X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ftext%2Fuser-manual.txt;h=81b5fcbf8adb490cc53e43547d061e120f924b62;hp=d07c1c7184d262b364f27a5649241455ee3b4d53;hb=1e1d5c254bb2b4241dfe6ebc5573a7560535de59;hpb=54c059d896c0c05f4710c6db0d16bd5d185c5a8e diff --git a/doc/text/user-manual.txt b/doc/text/user-manual.txt index d07c1c71..81b5fcbf 100644 --- a/doc/text/user-manual.txt +++ b/doc/text/user-manual.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Privoxy User Manual By: Privoxy Developers -$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.99 2002/04/28 16:59:05 swa Exp $ +$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.100 2002/04/29 03:05:55 hal9 Exp $ The user manual gives users information on how to install, configure and use Privoxy. @@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ Table of Contents 8.1. Configuration and Log File Locations - 8.1.1. confdir - 8.1.2. logdir - 8.1.3. actionsfile - 8.1.4. filterfile - 8.1.5. logfile - 8.1.6. jarfile - 8.1.7. trustfile - 8.1.8. user-manual + 8.1.1. user-manual + 8.1.2. confdir + 8.1.3. logdir + 8.1.4. actionsfile + 8.1.5. filterfile + 8.1.6. logfile + 8.1.7. jarfile + 8.1.8. trustfile 8.2. Local Set-up Documentation @@ -627,9 +627,50 @@ Privoxy can (and normally does) use a number of other files for additional configuration, help and logging. This section of the configuration file tells Privoxy where to find those other files. +The user running Privoxy, must have read permission for all configuration +files, and write permission to any files that would be modified, such as log +files. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +8.1.1. user-manual + +Specifies: + + Location of the Privoxy User Manual. + +Type of value: + + A fully qualified URI + +Default value: + + http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/ + +Effect if unset: + + The default will be used. + +Notes: + + The User Manual is used for help hints from some of the internal CGI pages. + It is normally packaged with the binary distributions, and would make more + sense to have this pointed at a locally installed copy. + + A more useful example (Unix): + + user-manual file:///usr/share/doc/privoxy-2.9.14/user-manual/ + + +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ + | Warning | + |-----------------------------------------------------------------| + |If this option is defined, it must come first! It is needed | + |before the rest of config is read. | + +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.1. confdir +8.1.2. confdir Specifies: @@ -659,7 +700,7 @@ Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.2. logdir +8.1.3. logdir Specifies: @@ -684,7 +725,7 @@ Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.3. actionsfile +8.1.4. actionsfile Specifies: @@ -721,7 +762,7 @@ Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.4. filterfile +8.1.5. filterfile Specifies: @@ -750,7 +791,7 @@ Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.5. logfile +8.1.6. logfile Specifies: @@ -786,9 +827,12 @@ Notes: 644 nobody.nogroup" in /etc/logfiles, with the effect that cron.daily will automatically archive, gzip, and empty the log, when it exceeds 1M size. + Any log files must be writable by whatever user Privoxy is being run as + (default on UNIX, user id is "privoxy"). + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.6. jarfile +8.1.7. jarfile Specifies: @@ -812,7 +856,7 @@ Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.7. trustfile +8.1.8. trustfile Specifies: @@ -847,36 +891,6 @@ Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -8.1.8. user-manual - -Specifies: - - Location of the Privoxy User Manual. - -Type of value: - - A fully qualified URI - -Default value: - - http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/ - -Effect if unset: - - The default will be used. - -Notes: - - The User Manual is used for help hints from some of the internal CGI pages. - It is normally packaged with the binary distributions, and would make more - sense to have this pointed at a locally installed copy. - - A more useful example (Unix): - - user-manual file:///usr/share/doc/privoxy-2.9.14/user-manual/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 8.2. Local Set-up Documentation If you intend to operate Privoxy for more users that just yourself, it might be