On Sunday 27 April 2014 10:02 PM, Sunil Mohan wrote: > On Sunday 27 April 2014 09:29 PM, James Valleroy wrote: > [...] >> Is it possible to get the port from /var/lib/tor/state (as we do in >> the testsuite), and use that to configure the firewall? >> >> Otherwise, if it's really necessary for us to pick a random port >> ourselves, we should probably do that in first-run instead of setup. > > I suppose we could pick up the port from /var/lib/tor/state and it would > be better than picking one ourselves. We are already setting the basic > firewall configuration in first-run. Further, first-run runs after tor > is run. If the information is in tor/state is available immediately > after tor runs, it would be safe to pick the port number from there.
I just checked for this. The port information needed in /var/lib/tor/state wasn't available immediately after running tor. It got populated a bit later. Perhaps it is safer to generate the port ourselves and set it in configuration. -- Sunil
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