Well so the bridge now jumped to being online for 18 days. But despite the torrc it is now saying it's still no distribution mechanism??
Thanks. --Keifer On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 10:23 AM Keifer Bly <keifer....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <li...@for-privacy.net> 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 <li...@for-privacy.net> 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 >> > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org >> > > 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 >> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> >
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