geoip file open error message

[Scott Bennett]

     On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 01:37:46 -0500 (CDT) I wrote:
>     On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:57:03 -0400 phobos at rootme.org wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:37:34AM -0500, bennett at cs.niu.edu wrote 1.5K bytes in 25 lines about:
>>: Jul 29 07:35:58.028 [info] geoip_load_file(): Failed to open GEOIP file /usr/local/share/tor/geoip.
>>: However, the file is actually present and was originally owned by root, group
>>: wheel, with 644 permissions.  I tried changing the owner and group both to
>>: _tor, but it made no difference.  I tried putting a symlink to it by the same
>>: name ("geoip") into /var/db/tor.  Also no luck.
>>
>>Sorry if this seems pedantic, but is the file the actual geoip file that
>>ships with Tor?
>>
>     Yes.  Since it wasn't working anyway, I also followed the instructions

     I guess I should have written, "It was," rather than simply "Yes."
Sorry for any confusion there.

>in the file to fetch a current copy.  FreeBSD's cut(1) doesn't accept -f0-3,
>but changing it to -f1-3 produced output in the same format, so an updated
>version of the file in the same format is currently in the location shown
>above.
>
     I've also left the 644 permissions, but I've changed both the owner and
group to "_tor".  It still doesn't work and gives the same error message.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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