Hello, Thanks for your support.
Doubtless you're right that the commands are out of date, in which case the instructions on torproject.org are out of date. https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en I used Option 2 set for Xenial then continuing from https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en step two which has "service tor reload" /var/log/syslog doesn't exist. Thanks for the suggestions. Doug Thursday, July 27, 2017, 9:23:07 PM, you wrote: > Hi Doug, > I think the short story is that you're managing the service the > wrong (old) way. Ubuntu moved to systemd as of 15.04. This should help: > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/systemd-essentials-working-with-services-units-and-the-journal >> sudo service tor restart >> sudo service tor status > These are now outdated commands, and so the results will not be > what you expect, and the output of the latter will potentially be > misleading. You need to use systemctl (check the above guide). >> For all I can gather, Tor isn"t running. >> The odd thing is if I reboot my VPS by sudo shutdown -r now >> and do ps aux | grep tor there is tor running as a root user > It's being started by systemd on boot, as seen in the output of ps here: >> root 435 0.0 0.5 44760 5716 ? Ss 19:40 0:00 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc >> /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f /etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0 >> --verify-config > That looks sane/typical to me, for what it's worth. >> There are no files in/var/tor/log > Check in /var/log/syslog; I'm not sure why logs go there instead of > /var/log/tor, but it may be another artifact of Ubuntu's switch to systemd. > -- Best regards, King mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
