PIDFile not written/missing in tor-0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs

[phobos at rootme.org]

Most likely, it is you. :)

I'm unable to replicate this on 10.4.2 or 10.3.9 with 0.1.0.14.  What
user does your tor daemon run as?  In OSX, it's _tor by default, if that
doesn't have access to the /var/Process/ directory, it can't write to
it.  In your example, is _tor(or whatever user you run it as) a member
of devgrp?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:22:08PM -0700, OpenMacNews at speakeasy.net wrote 2.1K bytes in 81 lines about:
: hi,
: 
: thanks 4 the reply =)
: 
: >Interesting, change the case of the PIDFile torrc to Pidfile and see if
: >that works.
: >
: >Line 161 of config.c looks for:
: >VAR("PidFile",             STRING,   PidFile,              NULL),
: >
: >not PIDFile.  This could be a documentation bug.
: 
: ok, let's try some games ...
: 
: in each of the following cases for changing tor.conf -->
: 		PidFile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
: 		Pidfile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
: 		pidfile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
: 
: i find NO pid file ...
: 
: % ls /var/Process/tor.pid
: 	/usr/local/bin/ls: /var/Process/tor.pid: No such file or directory
: 
: checking my syslog, i find in each case:
: 
: ...
: Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method 
: poll. Good.
: Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: write_pidfile(): Unable to open 
: "/var/Process/tor.pid" for writing: No such file or directory
: Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening Socks 
: listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
: Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening Control 
: listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
: Aug 24 21:58:43 devbox Tor: Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks 
: like it's working.
: ...
: 
: 
: hmmmm.  it's running ... but no pid.
: 
: looking for write_pidfile() in src/or/config.c ...
: 
:  ...
:  /* Write our pid to the pid file. If we do not have write permissions we
:   * will log a warning */
:  if (options->PidFile)
:    write_pidfile(options->PidFile);
:  ...
: 
: do i have a perms issue?
: 
: % ls -ald /var/Process
: 	drwxrwxr-x  6 devuser devgrp 204 Aug 24 21:35 /var/Process
: 
: shouldn't be :-/
: 
: something's odd ... is it me?
: 
: cheers,
: 
: richard



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