On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:14:11PM GMT, Felix Maschek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using unwind for a time and it is running perfect for me.
>
> Now with the upcoming new plugin api of chrome with limited support for
> uBlock I'm looking for an alternative.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not able to specify a valid block list in unwind.conf.
> I've added
>
> block list /etc/unwind.blocklist
>
> My blocklist file contains (for testing purpose)
>
> heise.de
> stern.de
>
> But there seems to be a syntax error I can't solve. In the log I have the
> following entries:
>
> Nov 14 00:09:29 vatrox unwind[52933]: /etc/unwind.conf:4: syntax error
> Nov 14 00:09:29 vatrox unwind[52933]: configuration reload failed
>
> So, what is wrong here?
>
> And a follow-up question: is it possible to load a huge blocklist (with, say
> 200.000) entries to replace the blocking within chrome?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Felix
>
Hi Felix,
I find this to be a fairly common syntax in OpenBSD - if you get
this type of error message, double-quote file/directory paths.
block list "/etc/unwind.blocklist"
works just fine.
Regards,
Raf