[patch] - Fix for "Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to init Log options"

Neel Chauhan neel at neelc.org
Fri Apr 4 00:01:45 UTC 2014


Hi,
I have a patch to fix the "Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to 
init Log options" problem whenever I start Tor on FreeBSD. It is:

--- Makefile.old        2014-04-03 19:48:25.000000000 -0400
+++ Makefile    2014-04-03 19:49:57.000000000 -0400
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@

  CONFLICTS=     tor-devel-[0-9]*

+PLIST_SUB=     USERS=${USERS}
+PLIST_SUB+=    GROUPS=${GROUPS}
+
  .include <bsd.port.options.mk>

  .if ( (${OSVERSION} < 900000) || \

--- pkg-plist.old       2014-04-03 19:37:16.000000000 -0400
+++ pkg-plist   2014-04-03 19:47:56.000000000 -0400
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  man/man1/tor-resolve.1.gz
  man/man1/tor.1.gz
  man/man1/torify.1.gz
+ at exec touch /var/log/tor ; chown %%USERS%%:%%GROUPS%% /var/log/tor
+ at exec mkdir /var/run/tor ; chown -R %%USERS%%:%%GROUPS%% /var/run/tor
  %%DATADIR%%/geoip
  %%DATADIR%%/geoip6
  @dirrm %%DATADIR%%

I'm in a hurry to post this because I'm a high school student and I 
don't want my mom to be too angry with me, but I did test this and it 
worked. Hope you enjoy it.
-Neel


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