Currently privoxy can only be started in non-daemon mode: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ privoxy --no-daemon /gnu/store/d3q0nz8568j32gslkc3lskxpzmimcx9z-privoxy-3.0.26/etc/privoxy/config --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In daemon mode, we get the following error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ strace -f privoxy /gnu/store/d3q0nz8568j32gslkc3lskxpzmimcx9z-privoxy-3.0.26/etc/privoxy/config ... clone(/home/ambrevar/.guix-profile/bin/strace: Process 11406 attached child_stack=NULL, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fed1647ea10) = 11406 [pid 11406] set_robust_list(0x7fed1647ea20, 24 [pid 11405] nanosleep({tv_sec=1, tv_nsec=0}, [pid 11406] <... set_robust_list resumed> ) = 0 [pid 11406] setsid() = 11406 [pid 11406] close(0) = 0 [pid 11406] close(1) = 0 [pid 11406] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/null", O_RDONLY) = 0 [pid 11406] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/null", O_WRONLY) = 1 [pid 11406] chdir("/") = 0 [pid 11406] stat("/gnu/store/d3q0nz8568j32gslkc3lskxpzmimcx9z-privoxy-3.0.26/etc/privoxy/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=68434, ...}) = 0 [pid 11406] brk(NULL) = 0x6b2000 [pid 11406] brk(0x6d3000) = 0x6d3000 [pid 11406] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/gnu/store/d3q0nz8568j32gslkc3lskxpzmimcx9z-privoxy-3.0.26/etc/privoxy/config", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11406] fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=68434, ...}) = 0 [pid 11406] read(3, "# Sample Configuration Fi"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "# The best all purpose solu"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "et:\n#\n# The templates are a"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "#\n# Default value:\n#\n# Uns"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "tten to the network\n# deb"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, " machines (e.g. on\n# your l"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "(e.g Java) is also\n# capabl"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "[:port][/dst_masklen]]\n#\n# "..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "\n# an IPv4 address (not sup"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "roxy but are made directly to th"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "voxy and Tor, both running on th"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "ifies:\n#\n# Whether requests"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "ing on the client connection is "..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, "he \"No server or forwarder data\""..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, " resources are being blocke"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, " |\n# |-----------"..., 4096) = 4096 [pid 11406] read(3, " client's IP address from\n# "..., 4096) = 2898 [pid 11406] read(3, "", 4096) = 0 [pid 11406] close(3) = 0 [pid 11406] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/gnu/store/d3q0nz8568j32gslkc3lskxpzmimcx9z-privoxy-3.0.26/var/log/privoxy/logfile", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [pid 11406] close(2) = 0 [pid 11406] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/gnu/store/d3q0nz8568j32gslkc3lskxpzmimcx9z-privoxy-3.0.26/var/log/privoxy/logfile", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [pid 11406] exit_group(1) = ? [pid 11406] +++ exited with 1 +++ <... nanosleep resumed> {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=998431322}) = ? ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (Interrupted by signal) --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=11406, si_uid=1000, si_status=1, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} --- restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted nanosleep ...>) = 0 wait4(11406, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1}], WNOHANG, NULL) = 11406 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- We probably need to patch privoxy so that it writes the logfile to /var/log/privoxy/logfile instead of inside the store. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/