Excessive scrubs

[Justin Aplin]

On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Jon wrote:

> Yes, I did the save the file. This is a given, sorry.

This may also be a given, but did you restart Tor after doing this?  
AFAIK (and I may be wrong), Tor does not read changes made to the  
torrc after initialization.

> I had added the ' SafeLogging 0 ' to the file as per Tor-ops
> message/reply. Twenty four hours later when I saw that it had not
> removed the ' scrubbed ' and replaced it with the node/address, I
> checked the file again and it was not in the file where I put it.

Was Vidalia running when you edited the torrc? Vidalia (on Windows, at  
least) has a bad habit of overwriting changes to the torrc that it  
isn't aware of. Personally I think there should be a "Confirm before  
modifying torrc" checkbox in Vidalia.

>
> I just checked it now, It is still in the file, but the logs still
> show the ' scubbed' and not the address as supposedly the '
> SafeLogging 0 ' was to replace. Time wise it appears to be at a
> minimum of once an hour. Which makes me believe it is the same address
> that is being scrubbed.

Try shutting down both Tor and Vidalia, making your edits, restarting  
both, and rechecking your torrc/logs. If you've done all this, please  
let us know.

~Justin Aplin


>
> OS is WIndows
>
> Jon
>
>
>> What do you mean by 'removed itself'? Was the file never saved, or  
>> was
>> there a point at which something else reverted it, or was it  
>> something
>> else entirely?
>>
>> Also, which operating system are you using?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:59 PM, katmagic  
> <the.magical.kat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:02:20 -0500
>> Jon <torance.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I saw a message from Tor-op in reference to a similar problem and  
>>> his
>>> solution was:
>>>
>>> Add the below line to your torrc and the scrubbed will be replaced  
>>> by
>>> the domain in question.
>>>
>>> SafeLogging 0
>>>
>>> of which I tried, but it would not stay in the torrc file. It  
>>> seems to
>>> remove it self at some point.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell it never worked, but unknown how long after I
>>> placed it before it got removed.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Jon <torance.ca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have noticed over the past 2 weeks, I have been getting an  
>>>> unusual
>>>> amount of scrubs. It doesn't tell me which addresses are being
>>>> scrubbed, so I don't know if they are the same or different ones.  
>>>> It
>>>> does not affect the operation of Tor. Just fills up the logs.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to have the '[scrubbed]' removed and the address put
>>>> in its place?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
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>>
>> What do you mean by 'removed itself'? Was the file never saved, or  
>> was
>> there a point at which something else reverted it, or was it  
>> something
>> else entirely?
>>
>> Also, which operating system are you using?
>>
>> --
>> more than just a leitmotif
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>>
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