[tor-relays] Fwd: WG: Tor is starting without the -f /etc/tor/torrc option

brightsidedarkside at t-online.de brightsidedarkside at t-online.de
Mon Sep 21 21:33:06 UTC 2015 

Yeah, you're right. If we ever meet not knowing we're us, imagine the
guy looking like an eremite hippie would just really invite you to his
favourite coffee shop. ;-) 

	-----Original-Nachricht----- 

	Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Fwd: WG: Tor is starting without the -f
/etc/tor/torrc option 

	Datum: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 23:27:28 +0200 

	Von: Tor Stuff <tor.geheimschreiber at gmail.com> 

	An: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org 

	       Hi Christian

 I think you lost that cup of coffee! I did a bit more research since
my posting and found the info I needed by doing 'man tor' on my Ubuntu
14.04.3 system.

The tor man page says that tor looks for /etc/tor/torrc by default, or
$HOME/.torrc if that file is not found. I only have an /etc/tor/torrc
file and I am satisfied that it is being read correctly by tor. 

The ARM_WARN message of which I originally complained is an arm
problem, not a tor one, it seems.

 Thanks to all those who replied.

 Cheers

 Q 
 On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Christian
<brightsidedarkside at t-online.de [1]> wrote:

 -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- 

Betreff: 		WG: [tor-relays] Tor is starting without the -f
/etc/tor/torrc option

Datum: 		Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:38:36 +0200 (MEST)

Von: 		brightsidedarkside at t-online.de [2]

An: 		tor-relays at lists.torproject.org [3]

  Sorry, to dumb to handle Android Mail. And prone to mistrust
regarding my private address.
  Gesendet mit meinem HTC 
 ----- Forwarded message -----
 Von: 
 An: "Billy Humphreys" <PokeAcer549 at outlook.com> [4]
 Betreff: [tor-relays] Tor is starting without the -f /etc/tor/torrc
option
 Datum: Mo., Sep. 21, 2015 18:36  
  Hi all,   I might miss the point, but as I also run Tor on Ubuntu, I
can confirm it reads both config files, the default one and my torrc.
The default one makes sure e.g. privilege dropping to user debian-tor
and a few other things in case you miss to set them properly. My
ORPort and other config is done via my torrc. And I would bet a cup of
tasty coffee that Tor on Ubuntu looks for /etc/torrc and not for
/etc/tor/torrc, but I always lose when I'm willing to bet, so I guess
it's just a little stubborn.   Greetings to you all.   Christian  
Gesendet mit meinem HTC  
 ----- Reply message -----
 Von: "Billy Humphreys" <PokeAcer549 at outlook.com> [5]
 An: <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> [6]
 Betreff: [tor-relays] Tor is starting without the -f /etc/tor/torrc
option
 Datum: Mo., Sep. 21, 2015 18:15     
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
 Hash: SHA256

 It normally uses /usr/bin/<service name>

 On 21/09/2015 15:50, Sean Greenslade wrote:
 > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Tor Stuff wrote:
 >> I am running tor on a new Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS system. I have
 >> restarted tor a couple of times with
 >> 
 >> service tor restart
 >> 
 >> I noticed when I start arm that it is telling me that
 >> 
 >> The torrc differs from what tor's using. You can issue sighup to
 >> reload ...
 >> 
 >> It seems that tor is running with default values and is not
 >> reading /etc/tor/torrc as there is no ... -f /etc/tor/torrc 
 >> option being used by the running tor when it is displayed with
 >> 'ps'.
 >> 
 >> The 'ps' output for the tor instance is
 >> 
 >> /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc
 >> /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush
 >> 
 >> I had asumed that because I have set DirPort to 80 and ORPort to
 >> 443 in /etc/tor/torrc and can see in the tor log files that those
 >> two ports are reachable from outside, that the running tor was
 >> reading /etc/tot/torrc.
 >> 
 >> Something is amiss with my tor configuration but I don't know
 >> what.
 >> 
 >> Any hints as to where to look would be welcome while I try to
 >> RTFM again!
 >> 
 >> Cheers
 >> 
 >> Q
 > 
 > This isn't really a Tor issue, it's an Ubuntu one. But you need to 
 > figure out how "service" is launching Tor and change it to point to
 > your /etc torrc.
 > 
 > --Sean _______________________________________________ tor-relays
 > mailing list tor-relays at lists.torproject.org [7] 
 > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[8]
 > 

 - -- 
 _______________________________________________
 My GPG keyID is 0x6DEF6C26 - the key is avaliable on most keyservers.
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 Version: GnuPG v2

 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWAC06AAoJEHukJMVt72wm7g8P/2QB01RxefD5hGFFwlt2k651
 RwPeD1FaeAlRUDTsb4nUpxv0Cy5tYvzMmlqOx5YbWNgH7iBqYynoUXuWSgD/skfp
 Zfycin75lSOSLv5nj3gFDfh6z7xivxcwl8sfrtS/wRNmWtPaiVPx+uz+7K8Vr/qn
 1A5QADFoCRBaQtl44cXJWdWtg5CKtPoCHEA95vYQDMunoL0diJJJyQH3wq7ERRgJ
 kamoZn6EtIVx+EJYkZmQ21GXTa9c5hjkW+reI6XUKZkgnq61Vbkw6HkRW7UUo8/y
 rp8q5sYmDCL61fZnSD7DeBFBBj7ajnccsGzjV5bBG9ztD7iTVvh0SWu05FaghcRu
 gpZ+/M7Z/8OUkCgr6F4YFAuE6mwJIcF8azSFXvuCsiVVfxo6DA8BGjzvLouZvdkx
 Q8SfCQYKUCAURtIamws5jRZHk+dSkktPvWqu4KMfmxbvtrA9xt8h2B/6+ix0c2X2
 OXd13fl+D0E/Hu7Ka653SUBxiOJ2AbRGQDh998SjfAWA0qqkXLDTn6q6APlCB3g2
 yjl03EVPdqx8zjGcQfeHhtmoEpWo92nPWzpXVeHODOu3UrTVF+wN5zlFf/NkVb16
 v0kuyzCtnd5EZ8AbyI/c2ZGANMffuv47kHq8u2VQ+hZJJrN22Lc4Zs/PD31sBZGD
 5WhIC9mkp/WD6rt9/+K9
 =37jU
 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
 _______________________________________________
 tor-relays mailing list
 tor-relays at lists.torproject.org [9]
 https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays [10]

_______________________________________________
 tor-relays mailing list
 tor-relays at lists.torproject.org [11]
 https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays [12]

Links:
------
[1] mailto:brightsidedarkside at t-online.de
[2] mailto:brightsidedarkside at t-online.de
[3] mailto:tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
[4] mailto:PokeAcer549 at outlook.com
[5] mailto:PokeAcer549 at outlook.com
[6] mailto:tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
[7] mailto:tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
[8] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[9] mailto:tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
[10] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[11] mailto:tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
[12] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/attachments/20150921/22b15a4d/attachment.html>

More information about the tor-relays mailing list