Hello. I have wanted to understand more about these Vidalia/Tor torrc files and just how and where one "edits them." In other words what do I write, where and in what manner? I keep following or-talk in the hopes I will glean something from what is posted and I think I am still visualizing the way Tor, Vidalia and Privoxy used to look in my Library from several years ago. I wasn't really trying to do anything but simply find the file, look at it and see if I am able to understand or figure out just how I would change it (edit torrc), if the need arose or I felt brave enough.
I generally have had no problems over the last 4-5 years using Tor but don't feel I understand it any more than I did then. Now it is much easier to use and I'm not sure I need to change anything but I still keep in mind the idea of being able to eventually become a Tor server. Thus, I need to learn a lot and it looks like Mt. Everest to me. :D Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Lewman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 9:09 pm Subject: Re: Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 5% On 02/28/2010 07:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello. Can someone please explain this to me in a way I might be able > to follow it? I am not very savvy, I admit but I need something more > clear in its detail as to exactly what do I do. "On OS X, if you use > Vidalia, edit ~/.vidalia/torrc, otherwise open your favorite text > editor and load /Library/Tor/torrc" Is the file I look for (and where > by the way?-I use OS X 10.5.2 ppc), ~/.vidalia/torrc? I really don't > know what it means by "my favorite text editor. Is that like Text > Edit in Mac? and load, how? What are you trying to do that cannot be accomplished in Vidalia? -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
