From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Raghav Gururajan" Subject: Re: "System Package" vs "System Service" Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 07:43:59 +0000 Message-ID: <90f53a16a078845886eae70e3f0ceea9@disroot.org> References: <87v9yltnwe.fsf@gmail.com> <87sgtsxo1m.fsf@gmail.com> <20190428184136.4f4dafbb@scratchpost.org> <671f8198e5e9419e37b646a67ff5c343@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOHFE-0000Rl-Qa for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 03:44:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOHFD-0004f1-Vj for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 03:44:04 -0400 Received: from knopi.disroot.org ([178.21.23.139]:48604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOHFD-0004e4-E2 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2019 03:44:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v9yltnwe.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Chris Marusich Cc: Danny Milosavljevic , help-guix@gnu.org > I'm sorry to hear that Tor is giving you such trouble. Maybe there is= =0A> some helpful information in one of the files in /var/log? Perhaps dm= esg=0A> has some useful output?=0A=0AI will check the log and get back to= you.=0AHow do I use dmesg? Should I install any package and use any spec= ific command?=0A=0A> As a last resort, another way you might be able to d= ebug the problem is=0A> by attempting to manually launch Tor and watch wh= at happens. For=0A> example, something like this ought to mimic the way i= t starts:=0A> =0A> sudo -u tor /path/to/tor -f /path/to/torrc=0A> =0A> Yo= u'll need to replace /path/to/tor with the path to the Tor executable,=0A= > and you'll need to replace the /path/to/torrc with the path to a file= =0A> containing valid Tor configuration. I think if you make a torrc file= =0A> that contains the following, it should work (I have not tested this)= :=0A> =0A> User tor=0A> DataDirectory /var/lib/tor=0A> PidFile /var/run/t= or/tor.pid=0A> Log notice syslog=0A> =0A> For details on the config file = syntax, see "man tor".=0A=0AThanks! I will give it a try.