Re: [tor-relays] tor-instance-create vs. /etc/tor/torrc

2018-03-22 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 21.03.2018 13:46, Gary wrote: > Firstly, delete what you dont want from > /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc file and its copies. Please don't. As general advice, really avoid messing with configuration files that ship with the distribution. Editing files in /usr/share is *never* a good

Re: [tor-relays] tor-instance-create vs. /etc/tor/torrc

2018-03-21 Thread nusenu
Igor Mitrofanov: > Hi, > > I use tor-instance-create to spawn a number of relay instances. > However, there seems to be one extra instance running - the default > one that reads /etc/tor/torrc (and not > /etc/tor/instances/INSTANCE/torrc). > > How do I disable that default tor relay? It opens p

Re: [tor-relays] tor-instance-create vs. /etc/tor/torrc

2018-03-21 Thread Gary
Hello. The ultra-paranoid would comment that it is better to have dedicated machines / VM's for each instance, and that machine should do nothing more than be a relay. However sometimes that isn't an option so instead there is tor-instance-create. It sounds like your problems are in a file at /us

[tor-relays] tor-instance-create vs. /etc/tor/torrc

2018-03-20 Thread Igor Mitrofanov
Hi, I use tor-instance-create to spawn a number of relay instances. However, there seems to be one extra instance running - the default one that reads /etc/tor/torrc (and not /etc/tor/instances/INSTANCE/torrc). How do I disable that default tor relay? It opens port 9050 and does who else knows wh