[Privoxy-users] Log file access error dialog on Windows

[Ian Silvester]

Hi Fabian, 

Yes I am, though it runs as my user, which indeed didn't have write access to Privoxy's installation folder. My bad for assuming it would 'just work' right out of the box ;)

I changed the permissions for the log file to solve this, though I should perhaps see if I can set up a non-privileged and non-interactive account for Privoxy to run as. 

Cheers, 

Ian

On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, at 07:52, Fabian Keil via Privoxy-users wrote:
> Ian Silvester via Privoxy-users <privoxy-users at lists.privoxy.org> wrote 
> on 2024-09-02 at 13:00:55:
>
>> I'm using Privoxy on a Windows 11 box for the first time. The initial
>> install went fine, I configured the proxy settings in Firefox and was
>> off to the races. The next time I booted the machine however, I get a
>> dialog pop up that says:
>> 
>> Fatal error: init_error_log(): can't open logfile: '.\privoxy.log'
>> 
>> Privoxy then closes down. Is this is known issue with a workaround?
>
> Changing the logdir to a directory Privoxy can write to using
> an absolute path should solve this.
>
> It currently seems to be set to the relative path "." which means
> Privoxy tries to write to the current working directory where it
> doesn't seem to have write access in your case.
>
> Are you running Privoxy as a service?
>
> Fabian
>
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