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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This is Debian Linux your doing this on correct? I am assuming this as most relays are run on Linux.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are the steps I’d use to install tor on Linux:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Open the Linux terminal </li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Sign into the Linux root account by typing su, then press enter. Liux will then ask you for a password; type the password you set as the administrator password when you set upr your Linux login (this might not be a 100% necessary step, but in my experience Linux can be quite naggy about users not having permission to install software and this should help avoid that issue).</li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>In the terminal root window type “apt install tor”. This will tell Linux to install the tor relay packages.</li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=4 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>In the root terminal window, type “gedit /etc/tor/torrc” This sould open the file so you can add the bridge configuration.</li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=5 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>If Linux yells at you for trying to install unrecognized packages in installing tor, do the following things listed here: <a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en">https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en</a></li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Please, I would ask, run pluggable transport bridge as opposed to a vanilla bridge (which is what your setting up), as pluggable transport bridges are more difficult to detect for network censors.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Find how to do that here: <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4prox">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4prox</a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:beatthebastards@inbox.com">I</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, June 25, 2018 4:04 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[tor-relays] bridge installation help please</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Would someone know what the problem is, please.</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>I can't see how the bridge is running nor what is wrong but have followed the torproject.org guide.</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b> tail -F /var/log/tor/log</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>tail: cannot open '/var/log/tor/log' for reading: No such file or directory</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>RunAsDaemon 1</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>ORPort 9001</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>BridgeRelay 1</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>ExtORPort auto</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>DataDirectory /var/lib/tor</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>ContactInfo <somebody at gmail dot com></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Nickname <a name></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Robert</b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>