[tor-relays] Auto Upgrading Tor Using Unattended Ugrades

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On 03.06.2019 05:54, Keifer Bly wrote:
> So upon opening the file in this folder, I am only seeing a blank file
> saying it is unwritable. I wonder why this might be

;-)
Only root can read the logfiles. You have to use sudo or su.
Or you as a user are a member of the group 'adm'. Then you can read some 
and open the folder: '/var/log/unattended-upgrades'.
Therefore the tip in the last message.


EXAMPLE:
user at tor-proxy-02:~$ cd /var/log/unattended-upgrades
user at tor-proxy-02:/var/log/unattended-upgrades$ ls -la
total 28
drwxr-x--- 2 root adm  4096 Jun  1 06:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun  3 06:25 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm     0 Jun  1 06:25 unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm   403 May 15 06:18 
unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm   333 May 11 06:10 
unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  800 Jun  3 06:39 unattended-upgrades.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1234 Jun  1 06:01 unattended-upgrades.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  673 Apr 30 06:06 unattended-upgrades.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Apr 15 22:13 
unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log
user at tor-proxy-02:/var/log/unattended-upgrades$ sudo nano 
unattended-upgrades.log



> Google Cloud does not include a desktop interface in their Debian VPS 
> so I am
> having to use nano to open everything. Thanks.

Not on the server. ;-)
In the filemanager on your home system. I can read my serverfile systems 
just like my files on the hard disk.

My everyday OS is Debian GNU/Linux. Most filemanager on *BSD, GNU/Linux 
and Unix systems should be able to do ftps or (File transfer over SSH).
In konqueror & Dolphin = FISH protocol. I only use PubkeyAuthentication 
on the servers!
Then you do not have to log in on the console to read the log files.

https://www.binarytides.com/ssh-dolphin-konqueror-kde/

Ciao Marco!


> 
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 10:26 PM <lists at for-privacy.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 31.05.2019 02:43, teor wrote:
>> >> On 31 May 2019, at 10:34, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Upon trying to open that folder, I got this.
>> >>
>> >> var/log/unattended-upgrades: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Try a leading slash:
>> > /var/log/unattended-upgrades
>> >
>> 
>> sorry,
>> slash was lost when I copy & paste. :-(
>> 
>> If you want to read as user the files in /var/log/
>> $ usermod -aG adm user
>> 
>> have a look:
>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-May/017311.html
>> 
>> --
>> Ciao Marco!