On 26 Aug 00 21:26:30 GMT, Dale L . Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm afraid I may have botched this one. Trying to get junkbuster to >work I removed it with 'apt-get remove junkbuster' then removed the >junkbuster directory with rm -rf. Now when I reinstall junkbuster, >there's nothing in the junkbuster directory. No config ..nothing.. >guess I'll have to live with those annoying adds You should always use the 'purge' option to get rid of unwanted config files. I was able to reproduce your situation, and fix it like this: # apt-get --purge remove junkbuster # apt-get install junkbuster No need to give in to the ads. >kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 11:38:58AM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: >> > Could someone shed a little light on configuring junkbuster? I tried >> > reading the man page and setting up netscape with manual proxy >> > configuration on local host port 5865 but then I can't connect to >> > anything. >> >> You want the following as your Netscape manual proxy config: >> >> host: localhost >> port: 5865 >> >> ...you'll also need junkbuster running (ps aux | grep junkbuster), or >> you won't have anything to talk to. >> >> Check your junkbuster configs under /etc/junkbuster/config. junkbuster is inclined to fail silently if it can't make sense of its config files. I'd suggest setting the debug variable to 15 or 16 initially, so you can see what's going on. Comment it out again and restart junkbuster when you have things working. >> Until you add URLs to your blockfile, you won't actually block anything. The sample blockfile in /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/examples is a good start. Frank
