diff --git a/srcpkgs/privoxy/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/privoxy/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c99ce0176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/privoxy/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+case ${ACTION} in
+post)
+	chown -R privoxy:privoxy etc/privoxy
+	;;
+esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/privoxy/files/privoxy/log/run b/srcpkgs/privoxy/files/privoxy/log/run
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..4923ee6f11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/privoxy/files/privoxy/log/run
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+exec logger -t privoxy
diff --git a/srcpkgs/privoxy/files/privoxy/run b/srcpkgs/privoxy/files/privoxy/run
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..120ca2ad62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/privoxy/files/privoxy/run
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+exec chpst -u privoxy:privoxy privoxy --no-daemon /etc/privoxy/config 2>&1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/privoxy/template b/srcpkgs/privoxy/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..448d200fd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/privoxy/template
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Template file for 'privoxy'
+pkgname=privoxy
+version=3.0.22
+revision=1
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${version}-stable"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--sysconfdir=/etc/privoxy --enable-compression --enable-dynamic-pcre"
+make_install_args="STRIP="
+conf_files="
+	/etc/privoxy/config
+	/etc/privoxy/default.action
+	/etc/privoxy/match-all.action
+	/etc/privoxy/user.filter
+	/etc/privoxy/trust
+	/etc/privoxy/default.filter
+	/etc/privoxy/user.action"
+system_accounts="privoxy"
+privoxy_homedir="/etc/privoxy"
+hostmakedepends="autoconf"
+makedepends="pcre-devel zlib-devel"
+short_desc="A non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities"
+maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.privoxy.org/"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ijbswa/${pkgname}-${version}-stable-src.tar.gz"
+update_ignore="*.mpkg"
+checksum=1a214fec1f3616ea7ff42f1ecdb67ce82690199ec403de9d34b99d0896efcc41
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoheader && autoconf
+
+	sed -e 's|^confdir .*|confdir /etc/privoxy|' \
+		-e 's|^logdir .*|logdir /var/log/privoxy|' \
+		-e 's|^\(logfile .*\)|# \1|' \
+		-i config
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vsv privoxy
+
+	# privoxy writes logs to stdout with --no-daemon
+	rm -r ${DESTDIR}/var/log/privoxy
+}