Thanks for the point in the right direction, rincebrain.

The reason I ask is that I'm using an open wireless network, and before I log-in to my emails or do anything more sensitive than reading /., I want to know that my browsing can't be intercepted... hence installing Privoxyhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa on my shared server space... but even from within the cpanel I havn't been able to ascertain what bloody distribution its running. (and Privoxy has different packages for different distibutions).

Thanks for the tip, anyway. I'll work it out in the end...