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#907 Privoxy and Android
G'day All
I brought a new android phone, the OS is a Android version 7.0 and I have found that even when I had followed the instruction's for privoxy setup, that privoxy will not start due to permission errors for this "sh /sdcard/privoxy.start" I'm hoping this can be resolved if possible . Any body have a solution ?
P.S The phone is non-root.
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Hi Andrew,
Could you provide the exact error message, or a screenshot thereof?
Another thing to try is to use ConnectBot to open a local shell session,
cd /sdcard, then ls -l privoxy.start - I'm interested to know what
permissions it actually has on installation. Oh and welcome to the
bleeding edge - you might just be the first person ever to install
Privoxy on Android 7.0!
Cheers,
Ian
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, at 12:25, Andrew wrote:
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#907Sorry for the delay, my Mac packed it in, now back to the issue.
Error msg
sh /sdcard/privoxy.start
HWMHA:/ $ sh /sdcard/privoxy.start
sh: /sdcard/privoxy.start: Permission denied
Request result from connectbot
1|HWMHA:/ $ cd /sdcard/
HWMHA:/sdcard $ ls -l privoxy.start
-rw-rw---- 1 root sdcard_rw 765 2017-03-20
19:11 privoxy.start
HWMHA:/sdcard $
Anything else ?
Please remember I'm without a PC or mac at present , think of buying a PC
this time. Had the Mac for 9 years.
On 25 Mar. 2017 12:31 pm, "Ian Silvester" diem@users.sf.net wrote:
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#907Hi Andrew,
Sorry to hear about the the Mac :o( FWIW when mine dies I'll be heading
to Linux/BSD.
As for the error, on Marshmallow (my only testbed) this script looks
like this:
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_rw 418 2017-01-07 12:45 privoxy.start
I don't know what the '1' signifies in your directory listing and I'm
also curious as to why your file is so much larger, but either way
neither thing ought to cause the error you're seeing. My first guess is
that Nougat is being (appropriately) strict in respecting POSIX file
permissions; strictly-speaking this file is not set executable so it
shouldn't be possible to run it the way we do.
I did try changing the permissions as root, and neither chmod nor chown
threw errors, but it seems Android's kernel ignores these commands; the
file remains resolutely owner and group read-write only. I suppose the
name of the group 'sdcard_rw' gives us the hint!
I'm afraid then that at this point it seems as though Privoxy for
Android does not support Android 7 (Nougat). If we find a workaround
I'll update this ticket. Could I ask two things in order to gather data:
the make and model of handset you have?
for you to post on the user forum asking if anyone else is using
Privoxy on Nougat, successfully or otherwise?
Sorry it's not better news,
Ian
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, at 06:39, Andrew wrote:
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#907I will do the second once I purchase a new computer and as for the other
request, Huawei mate 9 pretty good phone so far, the only problem is how
Google is invasive of user privacy.
On 28 Mar. 2017 6:42 am, "Ian Silvester" diem@users.sf.net wrote:
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#907Hello,
Had the same issue of "permission denied".
Allowing storage access permission resolved this issue for me.
Settings > Apps > Configure Apps > App permissions > Storage
change the entry for ConnectBot to "allow"
Privoxy seems to be running now.
SlimOs (6.0.1), Android 6.0.1
Samsung Tab 2 3G (P5100)
Thanks
Thank you will give it a try shortly!
Cheers
Andrew
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On January 18, 2018 5:14 PM, Moueen BG moueen@users.sf.net wrote: