Re: [tor-dev] default value of CookieAuthentication is wrong inthe documentation

On Thu, 04 Apr 2013, Tomáš Hnyk wrote:

(even though running "tor" does not say it read the file in question.)

Running "tor" doesn't.

The service-defaults-torrc file is only loaded if you start the service via the init script.

However, all tors, unless told otherwise, will read /etc/tor/torrc. I think it's a bug but when I last discussed this with upstream they didn't seem very interested in the issue.