Problems starting tor service ....
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Fri Sep 26 22:15:24 UTC 2014
On 09/26/14 16:22, Mario Lobo wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmmmm, OK:
[root at kabini1, /etc, 11:17:01pm] 391 % mkdir /var/log/tor
You have new mail.
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:14:01pm] 392 % chown _tor:_tor /var/log/tor
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:14:11pm] 393 % ( lltr10 /var/log/ ; date )
drwxr-x--- 2 privoxy privoxy 512 Sep 25 09:18 privoxy/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 625277 Sep 25 09:18 messages
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 792 Sep 26 00:00 maillog.0.bz2
-rw------- 1 root wheel 466 Sep 26 03:02 mount.today
-rw------- 1 root wheel 757 Sep 26 03:02 ipfw.today
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1448 Sep 26 04:55 sendmail.st
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 3428 Sep 26 04:55 maillog
-rw------- 1 root wheel 43052 Sep 26 05:33 auth.log
-rw------- 1 root wheel 85255 Sep 26 17:11 cron
drwxr-xr-x 2 _tor _tor 512 Sep 26 17:14 tor/
Fri Sep 26 17:14:15 CDT 2014
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:14:15pm] 394 % grep tor passwd
operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
_tor:*:256:256:Tor anonymizing router:/var/db/tor:/usr/sbin/nologin
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:14:21pm] 395 % grep tor group passwd
group:operator:*:5:root
group:_tor:*:256:
passwd:operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
passwd:_tor:*:256:256:Tor anonymizing router:/var/db/tor:/usr/sbin/nologin
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:14:38pm] 396 %
Then:
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:14:53pm] 397 % service tor start
Starting tor.
Sep 26 17:15:01.136 [notice] Tor v0.2.4.23 (git-598c61362f1b3d3e)
running on FreeBSD with Libevent 2.0.21-stable and OpenSSL 0.9.8za-freebsd.
Sep 26 17:15:01.137 [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 26 17:15:01.137 [notice] Read configuration file
"/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc".
Sep 26 17:15:01.154 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Sep 26 17:15:01.000 [warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file
/var/log/tor': Is a directory
Sep 26 17:15:01.000 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks
listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Sep 26 17:15:01.000 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to
init Log options. See logs for details.
Sep 26 17:15:01.000 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor: WARNING: failed to start tor
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:15:01pm] 398 % \rm -rf /var/log/tor
[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:15:26pm] 399 %
Obviously my surmise about /var/log/tor being a dir are .... *wrong* :-/
.... The permission thing is quite curious, since privoxy has similar
permissions (its own user/group) & was able to create its log-dir ....
puzzling ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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