On Wednesday 06 September 2006 23:35, Nikolay Sturm wrote: > * Paul Irofti [2006-09-06]: > > I just installed tor from ports on my workstation that follows > > current. When I lunch it I get the following error: > > Just set DataDirectory to something sensible like /var/spool/tor > (create that directory beforehand with owner _tor:_tor and mode 0700) > and start it as root. Then tor will drop privileges and work just > fine. >
That, and I also had to chown _tor:_tor /var/log/tor/ > Don't forget to tell the port's maintainer to send a fix for this > issue after unlock. > I fwd-ed the initial email, although I think he should be subscribed to ports@ > Nikolay Thanks for your input! Paul.
