proxy refusing connections

[Josh Johnson]

i tried again this morning and it works.  but thanks, if it does not  
again, ill try what you just suggested.

thanks
Josh

On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote:

> On 2006.02.25, at 00:00, Josh Johnson wrote:
>
>> hi, i setup everything, (using Mac Os X) in system preferences.   
>> in FIrefox, i set up the plug in that switches proxies.  when i  
>> switch to TOR, it says that the proxy server is refusing  
>> connections.(standard firefox error page).  does that just mean  
>> that servers are down, or something else?
>
> That sounds to me like Privoxy isn't running. In Terminal, try  
> running "ps ax|grep privoxy" and see if it shows privoxy as  
> running. You can do "sudo /Library/StartupItems/Privoxy/Privoxy  
> start" to start it.
>
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