Re: junkbuster
Yep, the files I want are there now. Thanks
Frank Copeland (fjc@thingy.apana.org.au) wrote:
> On 26 Aug 00 21:26:30 GMT, Dale L . Morris <dlm@well.com> 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
>
>
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