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From: "Raghav Gururajan" <rvgn@disroot.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "System Package" vs "System Service"
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 07:43:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90f53a16a078845886eae70e3f0ceea9@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9yltnwe.fsf@gmail.com>

> I'm sorry to hear that Tor is giving you such trouble. Maybe there is
> some helpful information in one of the files in /var/log? Perhaps dmesg
> has some useful output?

I will check the log and get back to you.
How do I use dmesg? Should I install any package and use any specific command?

> As a last resort, another way you might be able to debug the problem is
> by attempting to manually launch Tor and watch what happens. For
> example, something like this ought to mimic the way it starts:
> 
> sudo -u tor /path/to/tor -f /path/to/torrc
> 
> You'll need to replace /path/to/tor with the path to the Tor executable,
> and you'll need to replace the /path/to/torrc with the path to a file
> containing valid Tor configuration. I think if you make a torrc file
> that contains the following, it should work (I have not tested this):
> 
> User tor
> DataDirectory /var/lib/tor
> PidFile /var/run/tor/tor.pid
> Log notice syslog
> 
> For details on the config file syntax, see "man tor".

Thanks! I will give it a try.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-08  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-28 15:59 "System Package" vs "System Service" Raghav Gururajan
2019-04-28 16:41 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-29 13:28   ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-06  3:24     ` Chris Marusich
2019-05-07  5:28     ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-05-08  7:18       ` Chris Marusich
2019-05-08  7:43       ` Raghav Gururajan [this message]
2019-05-09  6:01         ` Chris Marusich
2019-05-09 14:29         ` Raghav Gururajan

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