Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:08:26 -0500 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems starting tor service .... Message-ID: <201409261608.s8QG8QBQ004144@sdf.org>
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:16:52 -0500 "William A. Mahaffey III"
<wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
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Do you suppose you could stop posting so many blank lines all the time?
>I pkg-installed tor & privoxy yesterday, & just tried to manually start
>tor. I got the following:
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>[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:10:13am] 360 % service tor start
>Starting tor.
>Sep 25 09:10:20.431 [notice] Tor v0.2.4.23 (git-598c61362f1b3d3e)
>running on FreeBSD with Libevent 2.0.21-stable and OpenSSL 0.9.8za-freebsd.
>Sep 25 09:10:20.432 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
>Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
>Sep 25 09:10:20.432 [notice] Read configuration file
>"/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc".
>Sep 25 09:10:20.449 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
>Sep 25 09:10:20.449 [warn] Fixing permissions on directory /var/db/tor
>Sep 25 09:10:20.000 [warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file
>/var/log/tor': Permission denied
Well, there's your clue.
>Sep 25 09:10:20.000 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks
>listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
>Sep 25 09:10:20.000 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to
>init Log options. See logs for details.
>Sep 25 09:10:20.000 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
The suggestion above is also a good thing to do.
>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor: WARNING: failed to start tor
>[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:10:20am] 361 % ll /var/
>total 92
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 account/
>drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 at/
>drwxr-x--- 4 root audit 512 Jul 10 18:48 audit/
>drwxrwx--- 2 root authpf 512 Jul 10 18:48 authpf/
>drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Sep 25 03:03 backups/
>drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Aug 5 08:47 cache/
>drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Sep 19 10:08 crash/
>drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 cron/
>drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 1024 Sep 25 09:03 db/
>dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 empty/
>drwxrwxr-x 2 root games 512 Jul 10 18:48 games/
>drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 heimdal/
>drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Sep 10 18:09 lib/
>drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1536 Sep 25 03:02 log/
Should say,
drwxr-x--- 2 _tor _tor 1024 Mar 5 2014 /var/log/tor/
although the size and date+timestamp will vary, of course. Then put
your own loginid into the _tor group, so you can check the notices
log without having to su to _tor or root. The log directory should
never be available to the public.
>drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Sep 25 04:55 mail/
>drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 512 Aug 2 06:07 msgs/
>drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 named/
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:48 preserve/
>drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 1024 Sep 24 07:42 run/
>drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 512 Aug 14 03:01 rwho/
>drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 Aug 26 17:37 spool/
>drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Sep 25 08:50 tmp/
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 10 18:50 yp/
>[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:11:05am] 362 %
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>[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:14:36am] 367 % uname -a
>FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu
>Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014
>root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>[root@kabini1, /etc, 9:14:40am] 368 %
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>tor-0.2.4.23 .... any clues appreciated :-) ....
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Regarding privoxy, a) it is no longer recommended for firefox
because firefox has finally fixed a security issue and can now be
configured for SOCKS use directly to a tor client, but you may want
it for wget(1) and other clients that use http{,s}_proxy, and b) once
you have privoxy working the way you want it, turn off its logging,
so it won't track everything you do and won't fill up /var.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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