Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[gromobir]

sudo apt-get remove --purge tor
I think that did the trick; thank you. :-)

Do you really use Abrowser and not Icecat?
I had Icecat installed some time ago and removed it again afterwards. Maybe  
tor was just an artifact from that older installation.

[Trisquel-users] tor process

[gromobir]

Hello there,

I just noticed that there is a process tor running in the background even  
though I never installed tor. Does this now come by default with abrowser?  
How can I disable tor? Thanks a lot for your answers.

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[mjmhogg71]

there was a lengthy discussion here:  
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/tor-browsing-trisquel-7-bad-idea

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[gromobir]

There is an add-on called Private Tor browsing but it has been disabled  
already. Strangely, I still have a tor process running in the background. 

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[g . smyli]

You could stop it from running by changing  S20tor to K20tor in /etc/rc2.d  
through /etc/rc.5


$ ls /etc/rc2.d
README   S20hddtemp S20speech-dispatcherS70pppd-dns
S16openvpn   S20postfix S20tor  S91apache2
S19mysql S20rsync   S25mdadmS99ondemand
S20clamav-freshclam  S20screen-cleanup  S37iptables-persistent  S99rc.local

$ sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S20tor /etc/rc2.d/K20tor

and repeat for /etc/rc.3.d and so forth. On mine rc0.d, rc1.d and rc6.d all  
have the Kill tor K20tor but run levels 3 through 5 have the start flag  
S20tor.


If you make them all K20tor and reboot it shouldn't start.

This is an easier way.
...I ran this on mine
$ sudo update-rc.d tor disable
[sudo] password for geshmy:
update-rc.d: warning:  start runlevel arguments (none) do not match tor  
Default-Start values (2 3 4 5)
update-rc.d: warning:  stop runlevel arguments (none) do not match tor  
Default-Stop values (0 1 6)

 Disabling system startup links for /etc/init.d/tor ...
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/tor ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20tor
   /etc/rc1.d/K20tor
   /etc/rc2.d/S20tor
   /etc/rc3.d/S20tor
   /etc/rc4.d/S20tor
   /etc/rc5.d/S20tor
   /etc/rc6.d/K20tor
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/tor ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20tor - ../init.d/tor
   /etc/rc1.d/K20tor - ../init.d/tor
   /etc/rc6.d/K20tor - ../init.d/tor
   /etc/rc2.d/K80tor - ../init.d/tor
   /etc/rc3.d/K80tor - ../init.d/tor
   /etc/rc4.d/K80tor - ../init.d/tor
   /etc/rc5.d/K80tor - ../init.d/tor

and then
$ sudo update-rc.d tor enable
starts it back up.
 

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[greatgnu]

sudo apt-get remove --purge tor

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[mjmhogg71]

Looks like it's using the Torbutton, should be able to disable it under  
add-ons ? Not sure...

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[gromobir]

Thanks a lot. I seem to have kinda missed that discussion. As I don't want to  
search the whole thread for this information: How can I disable tor?

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[gromobir]

Hum... unfortunately torbutton is not installed on my machine. Thus, I can't  
disable it. ;-)

Re: [Trisquel-users] tor process

[mjmhogg71]

strange tor is normally symbolized by a little green onion in the systray  
or browser, if that shows you could click on it for 'options', otherwise I  
don't know, sorry...