Problems starting tor service ....

[Scott Bennett]

     On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:12:13 -0500 "William A. Mahaffey III"
<wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>
>[root at kabini1, /etc, 5:20:57pm] 404 % mkdir /var/log/tor
>[root at kabini1, /etc, 10:07:29pm] 405 % touch /var/log/tor/notices.log
>[root at kabini1, /etc, 10:07:29pm] 406 % chown -R _tor:_tor /var/log/tor
>[root at kabini1, /etc, 10:07:31pm] 407 %
>[root at kabini1, /etc, 10:07:32pm] 407 %
>[root at kabini1, /etc, 10:07:32pm] 407 % service tor start
>Starting tor.
>Sep 26 22:07:40.245 [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 22:07:40.246 [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 22:07:40.246 [notice] Read configuration file 
>"/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc".
>Sep 26 22:07:40.263 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
>Sep 26 22:07:40.000 [warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file 
>/var/log/tor': Is a directory
>Sep 26 22:07:40.000 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks 
>listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
>Sep 26 22:07:40.000 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to 
>init Log options. See logs for details.
>Sep 26 22:07:40.000 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
>/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor: WARNING: failed to start tor

     Have you looked at your torrc file yet?  Maybe it *does* say to
use a file by that name instead of a file in a directory of that name.
     As far as defaults go, I installed tor back around 0.1.1.16 or
a bit earlier, so I really don't remember what they were then or whether
any changes I've made to torrc since then changed that in particular.
On my system, /var/log/tor is a directory, but I may have set it up that
way myself years ago.
     Remember, too, to check any changes you make to torrc with
"tor --validate-config" before trying to run tor with those changes.
Please do read the tor man page carefully, too.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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