I have installed TOR and Privoxy. I have set it up correctly as far as I can tell and when privoxy and tor are running things work fine. When I use privoxy's http://p.p/ it says privoxy is enabled and running fine and when I use the http://p.p/ and select the option that is suppose to show you the config file I get "Privoxy is not being used". This is really frustrating to me can someone please help me fix that.

Also, is there a way to "clean" you linux box? I just have a feeling mine is getting cluttered with files.

Thanks,

Nate

Re qn 2:
Depends which kind of files. You really need to be more specific, but basically, if you have created them personally, then you know whether you need to keep them.
For log files, check that logrotate is being used.
This preserves a num of prev versions and deletes any older ones. Must be set for each logfile.
Don't try to delete libs or executables, unless you are absolutely sure.
Use a pkg mgr if you have one.
Always(!) take a backup before doing any of the above.
For more advice we'll need to know which distro & version you have.

I run FC6 and I guess im mainly talking about hidden folders (those with .) and then also things ive installed from source. I just want to get rid of things I don't use / need and not sure the best way to go about it.

Thanks,

nomb

This is not for your present problems, but if you want clean de-installs for from source compiled things just use checkinstall:

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

As mentioned, try checkinstall for src installed stuff.
As for hidden dirs/files, they will be there for a reason.
As you're on FC6, you can use the pkg mgr yum/yumex to remove apps you don't use.

Don't remove individual files by hand unless
1. you have a backup
2. you know exactly what you are doing
it'll only break things.

awsome checkinstall will definately work from here on out but what about programs I've compiled from source which didn't include an uninstall? Am I just kinda SOL about those?

Thanks,

nomb

There are some (most?) programmers, who are thorough and provide the users with some means: cd to the directory you compiled from and try With luck you'll get rid of everything (more or less, depends on the packet's programmer).