Problems starting tor service ....

[Mario Lobo]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:21:51 -0500
"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at kabini1, /etc, 10:19:26am] 388 % grep wheel passwd
> [root at 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
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