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

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> 
> 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
> …
> 
> > 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.
> On 22 Sep 2015, at 02:15, Billy Humphreys <PokeAcer549 at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> It normally uses /usr/bin/<service name>

On Ubuntu, service starts /usr/bin/tor using the script in /etc/init.d/tor

Try editing the line that reads:
ARGS=“”
To read:
ARGS="-f /etc/tor/torrc”

This appears to have occurred as part of a recent package update, as I experienced exactly the same issue on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (trusty), and tor was using /etc/tor/torrc a few weeks ago.

(Also, Billy, please don’t top-post, it makes the thread of conversation hard to read.
Instead, post after the paragraph you’re replying to, and edit the message down to the parts needed to understand your response.)

Tim

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