privoxy Cookbook

This cookbook installs privoxy software

Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

• Debian-family Linux Distributions
• RedHat-family Linux Distributions

Cookbooks

• Depends on checkinstall cookbook
• When running on Rhel based systems, the node must include the yum-epel cookbook

Attributes

Recommended tunables

• privoxy['install_method']

  • String. Defaults to source. Can be source or package
  • source downloads source codes and compile them, then executes checkinstall to install as package
  • package installs package from the existing repo via apt or yum, depending on the distribution

• privoxy['url']

  • String. Points to the privoxy source codes archive location

• privoxy['version']

  • String. Privoxy version to be compiled

• privoxy['checksum']

  • String. Source codes archive checksum

• privoxy['adblockplus_subscription']

  • Bool. Flag to use AdBlock Plus subscriptions for ad blocking
  • Defaults to false

• privoxy['url']['list']

  • Array. List of AdBlock Plus subscription URLs

• privoxy['port']

  • String. Port for Privoxy to listen
  • Defaults to 8090

Source specific

• privoxy['prefix_dir']

  • String. The path to prefix dir
  • Defaults to /

• privoxy['exec_prefix_dir']

  • String. The path to exec_prefix dir
  • Defaults to /usr

• privoxy['config_dir']

  • String. The path to configuration file dir
  • Defaults to /etc/privoxy

• privoxy['doc_dir']

  • String. The path to docs dir
  • Defaults to /usr/share

Usage

privoxy::default

Just include privoxy in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[privoxy]"
  ]
}

License and Authors

• Author:: Rostyslav Fridman (rostyslav.fridman@gmail.com)

Copyright 2014, Rostyslav Fridman

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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