[tor-relays] Unable to get Tor exit relay to run - Ubuntu 16.04

[King Queen]

Hello,

Thanks for your support.

Doubtless you're right that the commands are out of date, in which
case the instructions on torproject.org are out of date.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en I used Option 2 set for
Xenial

then continuing from
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en step two

which has "service tor reload"

/var/log/syslog doesn't exist.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Doug



Thursday, July 27, 2017, 9:23:07 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Doug,

> I think the short story is that you're managing the service the
> wrong (old) way. Ubuntu moved to systemd as of 15.04. This should help:

> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/systemd-essentials-working-with-services-units-and-the-journal

>> sudo service tor restart
>> sudo service tor status

> These are now outdated commands, and so the results will not be
> what you expect, and the output of the latter will potentially be
> misleading. You need to use systemctl (check the above guide).

>> For all I can gather, Tor isn"t running.

>> The odd thing is if I reboot my VPS by sudo shutdown -r now 
>> and do ps aux | grep tor there is tor running as a root user

> It's being started by systemd on boot, as seen in the output of ps here:

>> root 435 0.0 0.5 44760 5716 ? Ss 19:40 0:00 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f /etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0 --verify-config

> That looks sane/typical to me, for what it's worth.

>> There are no files in/var/tor/log

> Check in /var/log/syslog; I'm not sure why logs go there instead of
> /var/log/tor, but it may be another artifact of Ubuntu's switch to systemd.

>  



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