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Problem: tinyproxy failing to start on gentoo.  Status showed crashed immediately after attempting to start.  Nothing significant in tinyproxy log file.
 # /etc/init.d/tinyproxy start
 * Starting tinyproxy ... [ok]
 # /etc/init.d/tinyproxy status 
 * status: crashed

Solution:
 mkdir /run/tinyproxy && chown tinyproxy:tinyproxy /run/tinyproxy