how to autostart tor on osx?

[Hideki Saito]

Ok, I think I know what's happening..

You need to execute:
/Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor start

Not just by /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor

When your system starts, your system execute it with parameter "start"
automatically, and when it shutdown, it should also issue
/Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor stop.

It a script that takes three different parameters, either start, stop,
or restart. (restart pretty much executes start and stop
sequentially.)


On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:51:22 -0800, Thomas Hardly <hardmac at gmail.com> 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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