MMAN(8) Middleman Manual MMAN(8)NAMEmman - (Advanced proxy server designed to increase privacy and remove
unwanted content)
SYNOPSISmman [-clpugdh]
DESCRIPTION
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to
remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing
the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include ban‐
ner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic
authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular
expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular
expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to tempo‐
rarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a
requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent con‐
nections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configur‐
ing the proxy.
OPTIONS-c <file>
location of config file
-l <file>
file to log actvity to
-p <file>
PID file
-u <username>
run as alternate user
-g <groupname>
run in alternate group
-d <level>
set log level
-h
help
FILES
/usr/local/etc/mman.xml
/usr/share/mman
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
NONE mman does not support include any support for ENVIROMENT vari‐
ables.
EXAMPLES
To run this program the standard way type:
mman-c /usr/local/etc/mman.xml
Alternativly you can run it as:
mman-c /usr/local/etc/mman.xml -umman-gmman-p /var/run/mman.pid -l
/var/log/mmam.log
AUTHORS
Middleman was written by Jason Mclaughlin <jasonmc@sympatico.ca>
SEE ALSOsyslog(2)pcre(3)zlib(3)pam(8)Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> 0.1 MMAN(8)