Newbie needs help

[Scott Bennett]

     On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:37:50 +0200 Christian Fromme <kaner at strace.org>
wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Bob
>Williams<security at barrowhillfarm.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Can you enable logging for Tor and check if you see some errors? Or
>>> see anything at all?
>>>
>> I have the following line uncommented in torrc
>>
>> Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
>>
>> and that file contains the following
>>
>> ---quote---
>> Jul 23 09:15:19.124 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening new log file.
>> Jul 23 09:15:19.295 [warn] Couldn't load consensus networkstatus from
>> "/home/bob/.tor/cached-consensus"
>> Jul 23 09:15:19.601 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have no network-status consensus.
>> Jul 23 09:15:21.794 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 0/1663 usable descriptors.
>> Jul 23 09:15:23.563 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 96/1663 usable descriptors.
>> Jul 23 09:15:24.436 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 192/1663 usable descriptors.
>> Jul 23 09:15:24.460 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 288/1663 usable descriptors.
>> Jul 23 09:15:25.236 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 318/1663 usable descriptors.
>> Jul 23 09:15:25.666 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
>> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 413/1663 usable descriptors.
>> Jul 23 09:15:26.076 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build
>> circuits.
>> Jul 23 09:15:33.062 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like
>> client functionality is working.
>> Jul 23 18:49:38.498 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.
>> Jul 23 18:49:38.499 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
>> Jul 23 18:49:38.500 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.
>> Jul 23 18:49:38.500 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
>> Jul 23 18:50:04.641 [notice] Catching signal TERM, exiting cleanly.
>> Jul 23 20:29:44.757 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
>> Jul 23 20:29:45.237 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build
>> circuits.
>> Jul 23 20:29:51.412 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like
>> client functionality is working.
>> ---unquote---
>>
>> I notice there is nothing recorded for today!
>
>Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile?
>If not, you seem to have changed some configuration settings in the
>meantime, breaking it.
>
     Why do you think that?  What he posted above shows that tor started
up okay, successfully built a circuit, and has encountered no situation
since that time that would require logging a notice-level message.  What
is broken about that?


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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