Polipo start as service

Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com
Sat Aug 17 07:57:43 UTC 2013


I am trying to setup Tor and Polipo as an anonymousing service on my 
laptop, and while Tor starts as a service polipo times out.

-- Logs begin at Wed 2013-08-14 19:00:50 CEST, end at Sat 
2013-08-17 09:47:33 CEST. --
Aug 17 09:45:56 dragon yum[8051]: Installed: 
vidalia-0.2.20-2.fc19.x86_64
Aug 17 09:45:58 dragon dbus-daemon[525]: dbus[525]: [system] 
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using serv
Aug 17 09:45:58 dragon dbus[525]: [system] Activating service 
name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Aug 17 09:45:58 dragon dbus-daemon[525]: dbus[525]: [system] 
Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Aug 17 09:45:58 dragon dbus[525]: [system] Successfully activated 
service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Aug 17 09:46:03 dragon systemd[1]: Starting A caching web proxy...
-- Subject: Unit polipo.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit polipo.service has begun starting up.
Aug 17 09:46:03 dragon polipo[8072]: Established listening socket on 
port 8118.
Aug 17 09:47:33 dragon systemd[1]: polipo.service operation timed 
out. Terminating.
Aug 17 09:47:33 dragon systemd[1]: Failed to start A caching web 
proxy.
-- Subject: Unit polipo.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation: 
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f03d
-- 
-- Unit polipo.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Aug 17 09:47:33 dragon systemd[1]: Unit polipo.service entered failed 
state.


And yes, I know I can use the Tor bundle, but I find I always forget to 
and want to use this as a standard service instead. I had it running on 
another laptop on Ubuntu.

/M


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