[tor-relays] confusing error from "tor --verify-config"

[Pascal Terjan]

On 20 December 2016 at 19:23, Patrice <mailinglist at pboenig.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> my relay is running fine [zeiberschnitzel] and it got no errors. I can`t
> see anything in the logs either.
> But when I do the command
>
> #tor --verify-config
>
> I got these outputs:
>
> Dec 20 18:20:27.946 [notice] Tor v0.2.8.11 (git-9fc59eddc17a726a) running
> on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.1t and Zlib 1.2.8.
> Dec 20 18:20:27.947 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn
> how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
> Dec 20 18:20:27.947 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
> Dec 20 18:20:27.956 [warn] /var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (root,
> 0) but by debian-tor (105). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
> Dec 20 18:20:27.957 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't
> access/create private data directory "/var/lib/tor"
> Dec 20 18:20:27.957 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
>
>
> I would say it`s nothing tragical but I am curios about it.
>
>
I would suggest running  tor --verify-config as debian-tor user instead of
root
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