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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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."
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20140926182223.0b204ceb>