Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:43:16 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems starting tor service .... Message-ID: <20140927064316.3d9ac6fc.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <54262CAB.9040402@hiwaay.net> References: <542423D4.8070706@hiwaay.net> <54242605.4090004@dat.pl> <5424330F.2060209@hiwaay.net> <20140926182223.0b204ceb@Papi> <5425E6F0.8030704@hiwaay.net> <20140926193736.43e50435@Papi> <54262CAB.9040402@hiwaay.net>
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The important information is this: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:19:07 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > # tor_enable (bool): Set it to "YES" to enable tor. Default: NO > # tor_conf (str): Points to your torrc file. > # Default: /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc > # tor_user (str): Tor daemon user. Default: _tor > # tor_datadir (str): Tor datadir. Default: /var/db/tor > # tor_logfile (str): Tor log file. Default: /var/log/tor > # tor_loglevel (str): Tor log severity level. Default: notice Here, /var/db/tor has to be a directory accessible by the tor user, and /var/log/tor has to be a file. Probably those have to be present (as the following lines list them as required). Check /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc if it makes any changes to the default settings (shouldn't be, but have a look). > Sep 26 22:17:54.000 [warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file > /var/log/tor': Permission denied This seems to indicate that the file is present, but not accessible. Check permissions and owner (should be "_tor" with an underscore). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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