Ok, so when this happens, what would be the best command to use for reading the newest tor log?
I am also needing this for another relay, my middle relay at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/udeserveprivacy also keeps going offline with no warning and nothing written to the log file. Thanks. --Keifer On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 3:39 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sonntag, 12. März 2023 04:45:21 CET Keifer Bly wrote: > > I do not use any scripts to start tor, I just type tor to start the > process > > on debian. > That's where your problems begin. You start a 2nd tor process as root that > doesn't take the default configs from: > /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc & /etc/tor/torrc > > You have a systemd system & tor.service is activated by default. You don't > have to do anything, tor runs automatically after a reboot|server start. > > The systemd services are controlled with the following commands: > systemctl start tor.service > systemctl stop tor.service > systemctl restart tor.service > systemctl reload tor.service > systemctl status tor.service > > > And yes the datacenter I run in has an external firewall which > > requires setting up port forwarding. > Ok, anything in the customer interface for the datacenter router. > > > The result of running ls -A /var/log/tor > > > > root@instance-1:/home/keifer_bly# ls -A /var/log/tor > > notices.log notices.log.1 notices.log.2.gz notices.log.3.gz > > notices.log.4.gz notices.log.5.gz > There are 6 log files of one of the tor processes. Both write to syslog. > > > > > So it's creating separate .gz files for some reason. I don't know why > that > > is or what to do from here. Thanks. > I wrote, learn what _logrotate_ does. Hint: without that, the hd fills up. > man logrotate > > > > > > > > > --Keifer > > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:15 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 8. März 2023 18:13:01 CET Keifer Bly wrote: > > > > Strangely, nothing whatsoever is being written to the notices.log > file, > > > > upon checking it it is completely empty, nothing there. > > > > > > That can't be, please post: > > > ~# ls -A /var/log/tor > > > > > > In general, everything is always written to /var/log/syslog & > > > systemd-journald > > > to /var/log/journal (binaries). > > > ~$ man journalctl > > > > > > > I wonder why that > > > > > > Read what _logrotate_ does. Every tor restart creates a new empty log > > > file. > > > > > > > would happen and how else to tell what's going on? Tor is running as > > > > root > > > > > > Why do you change security-related default settings? Default tor user > is: > > > debian-tor. (On Debian and Ubuntu systems) > > > > > > > so it's not a permission issue, and I also set up a port forwarding > rule > > > > > > Why? You have a server in the data center. You only need forwarding on > a > > > router! Packet forwarding is also disabled in /etc/sysctl.conf per > > > default. > > > > > > Your iptables must start like this. > > > *filter > > > > > > :INPUT DROP [0:0] > > > :FORWARD DROP [0:0] > > > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > > > > > > ... > > > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport <Your-Tor-ORPort> -j ACCEPT > > > ... > > > > > > No FORWARD, no OUTPUT rules. > > > > > > -- > > > ╰_╯ Ciao Marco! > > > > > > Debian GNU/Linux > > > > > > It's free software and it gives you > > > freedom!_______________________________________________ > > > tor-relays mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > -- > ╰_╯ Ciao Marco! > > Debian GNU/Linux > > It's free software and it gives you > freedom!_______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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