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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Try signing into the root account on your Linux. This should these issues. Let me know.</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 5:37 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keifer, thanks,<br><br>Try navigating to /var/log/tor/. This is where tor will normally save the log files to. See if there is a tor log text file there. If you have not started your relay, tor might not have created the log file yet.<br><br>Try starting the tor software then see if the file appears after that.<br><br>As it showed before there is no /var/log/tor.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I thought I installed it from root but typing tor as root brought <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>/var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (root, 0) but by debian-tor (107)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't create private data directory "/var/lib/tor"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Rob<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>