[tor-relays] Wrong mode on /var/run/tor

[Alexander Dietrich]

Hello,

I just had a tor instance exit with these error messages:

[warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the 
listener ports.
[err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. For usage, try -h.
[warn] Restart failed (config error?). Exiting.

Above that, the log contains an endless stream of these errors:

[warn] Permissions on directory /var/run/tor are too permissive.
[warn] Before Tor can create a control socket in "/var/run/tor/control", 
the directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to be accessible only 
by the user and group account that is running Tor.  (On some Unix 
systems, anybody who can list a socket can connect to it, so Tor is 
being careful.)

When I checked, the /var/run/tor directory had the mode "rwxr-sr-x". 
After removing the permissions for "other", tor started without 
problems.

Did anyone else see this? I'm using Ubuntu packages from the 
deb.torproject.org repository.

Best regards,
Alexander
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