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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:46:44 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: tor logging
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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 15:36:58 -0553.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> My torrc 
> files seems to indicate logging to /usr/local/var/log/tor, but no such 
> file or directory.

Create this directory subtree and an empty log file. Then check
if it will actually be used for logging - if that is what the
torrc file indicates. Otherwise, set a different logging file,
but make sure it does actually exist.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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