[tor-relays] 0.2.4.20 logging duplicate messages

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On 28/01/2014 10:16 PM, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:10:57AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>>       Along with my recent OS upgrade I have also updated my tor relay from
>>> 0.2.4.3-alpha to 0.2.4.20.  The latter version write two identical copies
>>> of every message to the log file.  I have only one uncommented "Log " line
>>> in my torrc, which is
>>>
>>> Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
>>>
>>> but every single message is getting written to the file twice.
>>
>> Which package did you install? If it was the deb, look at
>> /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc
>> (these are the default defaults, if you will).
>
> I'm guessing FreeBSD in which case the culprit is probably the
> rc script which enables notice logging by default:
>
> fk at r500 ~ $grep Log /usr/jails/tor-jail/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor
> command_args="-f ${tor_conf} --PidFile ${tor_pidfile} --RunAsDaemon 1 --DataDirectory ${tor_datadir} --+Log ${tor_loglevel}\ file\ ${tor_logfile}"
>
> Fabian
>
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I run my relays on FreeBSD too. Just leave all log settings commented in 
torrc:

#Log notice file /usr/local/var/log/tor/notices.log
#Log debug file /usr/local/var/log/tor/debug.log
#Log notice syslog
#Log debug stderr

And you won't get duplicate entries in /var/log/tor.


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