Re: Error message when using Polipo on Xubuntu 12.04 64-bit

On 30 Aug 2013, at 04:03, Jason Smith wrote:
> I setup Polipo today and made sure everything was configured to the best 
> of my ability. I set it up where apt-get could access the internet 
> through the proxy as well. When I fired up Synaptic to to update my 
> repositories, I noticed a series of error messages in the terminal 
> window similar to the following:
> 
> Couldn't create disk file 
> /var/cache/polipo/extras.ubuntu.com/I3ovcIMHGOSKrHDwTjbWug==: Permission 
> denied

What user is polipo running as? Does /var/cache/polipo exist, and is it
writable by that user?


> Out of curiosity, I went to polipo's log file and these were the only 
> two entries:
> 
> Couldn't bind: Address already in use
> Couldn't establish listening socket: Address already in use


Probably you tried to start polipo twice, and the second time it logged
these error messages because the port was already in use by the first
instance of polipo.


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