Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:22:23 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems starting tor service .... Message-ID: <20140926182223.0b204ceb@Papi> In-Reply-To: <5424330F.2060209@hiwaay.net> References: <542423D4.8070706@hiwaay.net> <54242605.4090004@dat.pl> <5424330F.2060209@hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:21:51 -0500 "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: > On 09/25/14 09:26, Maciej Milewski wrote: > > On 25.09.2014 16:16, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> Sep 25 09:10:20.000 [warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file > >> /var/log/tor': Permission denied > >> 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. > > Wrong /var/log/tor permissions? > > > > > I *think* /vsar/log/tor is supposed to be a directory, not sure about > that .... In any event, I also started privoxy & it had no problems > starting, setting up its /var/log dir, etc.: > > > [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:18:24am] 385 % lsof -n | grep privoxy > lsof: WARNING: compiled for FreeBSD release 9.1-RELEASE-p17; this is > 9.3-RELEASE. > privoxy 88652 privoxy cwd VDIR 0,102 > 1024 2 / privoxy 88652 privoxy rtd VDIR > 0,102 1024 2 / privoxy 88652 privoxy > txt VREG 0,166 267352 807043 /usr/local/sbin/privoxy > privoxy 88652 privoxy txt VREG 0,102 108664 > 2006401 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 > privoxy 88652 privoxy 0r VCHR 0,17 > 0t0 17 /dev/null > privoxy 88652 privoxy 1w VCHR 0,17 > 0t0 17 /dev/null > privoxy 88652 privoxy 2u IPv4 > 0xfffffe018622b3d0 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:8118 (LISTEN) > [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:18:43am] 386 % (lltr10 /var/log/; date) > -rw------- 1 root wheel 5427 Sep 24 12:00 cron.0.bz2 > -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 795 Sep 25 00:00 maillog.0.bz2 > -rw------- 1 root wheel 757 Sep 25 03:02 ipfw.today > -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1448 Sep 25 04:55 sendmail.st > -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3427 Sep 25 04:55 maillog > -rw------- 1 root wheel 42302 Sep 25 05:33 auth.log > -rw------- 1 root wheel 69791 Sep 25 09:00 security > drwxr-x--- 2 privoxy privoxy 512 Sep 25 09:18 privoxy/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 625277 Sep 25 09:18 messages > -rw------- 1 root wheel 35859 Sep 25 10:15 cron > Thu Sep 25 10:19:04 CDT 2014 > [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:19:04am] 387 % history | grep service > 360 9:10 service tor start > 369 9:18 service privoxy start > 370 9:18 service tor start > 375 9:24 vi services > 376 9:27 grep any services > 387 10:19 history | grep service > [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:19:26am] 388 % grep wheel passwd > [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:20:41am] 389 % > > > both privoxy & tor have their own users defined in passwd, neither > are in the group wheel .... who knows .... TIA for any further > clues .... > > mkdir /var/log/tor chown tor:tor /var/log/tor Watch out because on my system the user created was _tor, so check yours ! After that, restart tor. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."home | help
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