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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:16:52 -0500
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Problems starting tor service ....
Message-ID:  <542423D4.8070706@hiwaay.net>

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I pkg-installed tor & privoxy yesterday, & just tried to manually start 
tor. I got the following:


[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
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.
/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/
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 %

[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 %


tor-0.2.4.23 .... any clues appreciated :-) ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.




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