how to autostart tor on osx?

[Anthony K.]

I spent hours on this, several months ago. I never got it to work. Which 
seemed impossible, really. Like you, I even tried adding a line to the 
Privoxy script in StartupItems....and Privoxy would start, but Tor would 
not. I tried running it from a StartupItems script alone on a single 
line; then mixing with other scripts, then with/out sudo, and then both 
with/out setuid/gid...I forget what all.

Nothing. Nada.

I intend to try again, but for now, I just go to the 'Accounts' 
PreferencePane and point directly at the bare 'tor' binary -- by default 
'/usr/local/bin/tor'. It leaves an ugly TERM window open, but it works, 
every time. (At one time I made a wrapper script, and pointed at that. 
But there is nothing I need which can't be done in the default 
'/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc' config file. YMMV.)

Other problems were placement of 'torrc' and the logfiles....but those 
are just *nix permissions problems, and can be fixed/setup any way you 
prefer.

Looking at the website, I see interest also in a OSX package of 
MixMinion. I guess I could try doing both, if there were interest? 
Assuming that this approach is possible -- and it (almost) must be. 
(Right? <LOL!>)

Anthony

PS: Do we get copies of our own "sends"? This is my second attempt.



Thomas Hardly wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. I have the directory and script named
> correctly. As I mentioned the console message "Starting Tor Service"
> appears in my syslog every startup.
> 
> I tried running the startup script it in the shell as you suggested
> and as you can see below it is choking on the last line of the script
> with the command:        RunService "$1"
> 
> ---
> sandbox:~ hard-mac$ sudo /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor 
> /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor: line 41: $1: unbound variable
> 
> 
> th
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:09:34 -0800, Hideki Saito <hidekis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Same as yours...did you put it in /Library/StartupItems/Tor ?
>>
>>/Library/StartupItems/Tor/StartupParameters.plist
>>/Library/StartItems/Tor/Tor
>>
>>It will not work unless you actually put in "Tor" directory. (In other
>>word, "Tor" file inside this archive must match with directory name.
>>
>>After you install, what will have if you do:
>>sudo /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor start?
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:37:18 -0800, Thomas Hardly <hardmac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>HI,
>>>
>>>Thanks for the file. I have been testing it two machines running
>>>10.3.6 and have yet to make it work. The console message from the
>>>startup file appears but yet it actually fails to start at all. I'm
>>>not sure why it isn't working and have checked over file locations
>>>etc. and all seems that it should be fine and working but alas it
>>>isn't...
>>>
>>>What OS version have you been using this on?
>>>
>>>
>>>th
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:13:02 -0800, Hideki Saito <hidekis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Oops, I'm sorry, here's a file (if attachment works...)
>>>>Put these files this into /Library/StartupItems/Tor
>>>>
>>>>I'll upload the same file into appropriate directory tonight, as well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thomas Hardly wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Hideki,
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for your reply.
>>>>>
>>>>>I get a 404 not found error for that link. I looked in the /pub/tor/
>>>>>duirectory and didn't see anything that matched tha file you
>>>>>mentioned?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:53:08 -0800, Hideki Saito <hidekis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Try http://www.anime.net/~sasami/pub/tor/torstartup.zip
>>>>>>Included is a set of script file to start up tor.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There might be some case it won't start up right after restarting, in
>>>>>>that case, you may have to manually issue command like 'killall tor'
>>>>>>(In my purpose, I've just put that line in stop section...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:54:03 -0800, Thomas Hardly <hardmac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've been testing tor and privoxy on osx systems and am looking for a
>>>>>>>method to have it autostart at system startup.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've tried adding it to the end of the privoxy StartupItem as:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>/usr/local/bin/tor &
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   but this doesn't seem to work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've created a stand alone StartupItem for tor, making it run Last at
>>>>>>>startup and that still doesn't seem to work. Anyone have any
>>>>>>>suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>>>Thomas Hardly
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Hideki Saito mailto: hidekis at gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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