Problems starting tor service ....
Mario Lobo
lobo at bsd.com.br
Fri Sep 26 22:37:25 UTC 2014
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:21:36 -0500
"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 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 ....
>
Also for a few hints more, check out
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor
--
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things,
because that would also stop you from doing clever things."
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