On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:45 PM, teor <teor2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 11 Dec 2017, at 02:17, Aneesh Dogra <lionane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I run a tor exit relay named "rippedlion". I was out for vacation past > few days and saw I had a 2 day downtime. I had a look at the logs and > apparently /var/lib/tor got detected to be owned as <unknown>? How do I > prevent this in future? > > > > Snippet from notices.log: > > > > Dec 08 06:54:57.000 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR > circuit with purpose Acting as rendevous (pending) > > Dec 08 06:56:25.000 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR > circuit with purpose Acting as rendevous (pending) > > Dec 08 07:00:21.000 [warn] /var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (root, > 0) but by <unknown> (112). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user? > > Dec 08 07:00:21.000 [err] Can't create/check datadirectory /var/lib/tor > > Dec 08 07:00:21.000 [err] Unable to update Ed25519 keys! Exiting. > > tor thought it was running as root when it logged that message. > Are you sure your tor process doesn't run as root? > Do you have a User option in your torrc or torrc-defaults file? > Does it correspond to user id 112? > > Yes I *was* running tor as root and after the downtime changed it to a low privileged user.
> > PS: I am now running tor; as a low privledged user that only has access > to /var/lib/tor and /var/log/tor. > > I'm not sure what you mean here - have you changed the user that tor > runs as since the downtime? > > T > > -- > Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) > > teor2345 at gmail dot com > PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B > ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n > xmpp: teor at torproject dot org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > -- Regardless, I hope you're well and happy - Aneesh
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