Justin,

Thanks, followup it is running properly now. I did an upgrade to
Vidalia only and it resolved the issue. There have been no more
scrubs.

Jon



On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Justin Aplin <jmap...@ufl.edu> wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Jon wrote:
>
>> Yes, I did the save the file. This is a given, sorry.
>
> This may also be a given, but did you restart Tor after doing this? AFAIK
> (and I may be wrong), Tor does not read changes made to the torrc after
> initialization.
>
>> I had added the ' SafeLogging 0 ' to the file as per Tor-ops
>> message/reply. Twenty four hours later when I saw that it had not
>> removed the ' scrubbed ' and replaced it with the node/address, I
>> checked the file again and it was not in the file where I put it.
>
> Was Vidalia running when you edited the torrc? Vidalia (on Windows, at
> least) has a bad habit of overwriting changes to the torrc that it isn't
> aware of. Personally I think there should be a "Confirm before modifying
> torrc" checkbox in Vidalia.
>
>>
>> I just checked it now, It is still in the file, but the logs still
>> show the ' scubbed' and not the address as supposedly the '
>> SafeLogging 0 ' was to replace. Time wise it appears to be at a
>> minimum of once an hour. Which makes me believe it is the same address
>> that is being scrubbed.
>
> Try shutting down both Tor and Vidalia, making your edits, restarting both,
> and rechecking your torrc/logs. If you've done all this, please let us know.
>
> ~Justin Aplin
>
>
>>
>> OS is WIndows
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>> What do you mean by 'removed itself'? Was the file never saved, or was
>>> there a point at which something else reverted it, or was it something
>>> else entirely?
>>>
>>> Also, which operating system are you using?
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:59 PM, katmagic <the.magical....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:02:20 -0500
>>> Jon <torance...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I saw a message from Tor-op in reference to a similar problem and his
>>>> solution was:
>>>>
>>>> Add the below line to your torrc and the scrubbed will be replaced by
>>>> the domain in question.
>>>>
>>>> SafeLogging 0
>>>>
>>>> of which I tried, but it would not stay in the torrc file. It seems to
>>>> remove it self at some point.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can tell it never worked, but unknown how long after I
>>>> placed it before it got removed.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Jon <torance...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have noticed over the past 2 weeks, I have been getting an unusual
>>>>> amount of scrubs. It doesn't tell me which addresses are being
>>>>> scrubbed, so I don't know if they are the same or different ones. It
>>>>> does not affect the operation of Tor. Just fills up the logs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to have the '[scrubbed]' removed and the address put
>>>>> in its place?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
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>>> What do you mean by 'removed itself'? Was the file never saved, or was
>>> there a point at which something else reverted it, or was it something
>>> else entirely?
>>>
>>> Also, which operating system are you using?
>>>
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