PRIVOXY(8) PRIVOXY(8)

NAME

       privoxy - Privacy Enhancing Proxy

SYNOPSIS

       privoxy [--chroot ] [--config-test ] [--help ] [--no-daemon ] [--pidfile pidfile ] [--pre-chroot-nslookup

       hostname ] [--user user[.group] ] [--version ] [configfile ]

OPTIONS

       Privoxy may be invoked with the following command line options:

       --chroot

              Before changing to the user ID given in the --user option, chroot to that user's home directory, i.e.

              make the kernel pretend to the Privoxy process that the directory tree starts there. If set up care‐

              fully, this can limit the impact of possible vulnerabilities in Privoxy to the files contained in that

              hierarchy.

       --config-test

              Exit after loading the configuration files before binding to the listen address. The exit code signals

              whether or not the configuration files have been successfully loaded.

              If the exit code is 1, at least one of the configuration files is invalid, if it is 0, all the configu‐

              ration files have been successfully loaded (but may still contain errors that can currently only be de‐

              tected at run time).

              This option doesn't affect the log setting, combination with "--no-daemon" is recommended if a config‐

              ured log file shouldn't be used.