[tor-relays] Caching new entry debian-tor...

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 07:20:03PM +0200, shraptor wrote:
> What's up with these messages I get in tor-arm and log?
> 
> Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor [62 duplicates hidden]
> 
> What is tor doing??
> 
> Sep 20 19:10:21.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor

It looks like this notice-level entry was changed to an info-level entry
starting in Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha:

$ git show 251f6cfc
commit 251f6cfcd829d3f7b8ac7bce8477a6e14ad47a1e
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 19 12:30:34 2015 -0500

    Quiet "caching debian-tor for debian-tor" notice

diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index fde65d9..1788e32 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -1793,8 +1793,8 @@ tor_getpwnam(const char *username)
   if ((pw = getpwnam(username))) {
     tor_passwd_free(passwd_cached);
     passwd_cached = tor_passwd_dup(pw);
-    log_notice(LD_GENERAL, "Caching new entry %s for %s",
-               passwd_cached->pw_name, username);
+    log_info(LD_GENERAL, "Caching new entry %s for %s",
+             passwd_cached->pw_name, username);
     return pw;
   }

So it looks like you are running an old version of Tor? You should
upgrade and the line should go away. In any case it should be harmless.

Hope that helps,
--Roger