-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Dear Tor Developers, According to the Tor manual: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en
DisableNetwork 0|1 When this option is set, we don’t listen for or accept any connections other than controller connections, and we close (and don’t reattempt) any outbound connections. Controllers sometimes use this option to avoid using the network until Tor is fully configured. (Default: 0)
However, it seems when DisableNetwork is set to 1, /var/run/tor/control does not exist anymore making us cannot get a controller from socket file. (stem.control.Controller.from_socket_file() is affected in this case: https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.control.Controller.fro m_socket_file) To reproduce this, I tested both Tor 0.3.1.9 and 0.3.2.9 on Debian Stretch: When DisableNetwork 0, run: systemctl --no-pager restart tor@default
user@host:~$ ls -l /var/run/tor/ total 1328 srw-rw---- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 0 Jan 19 21:14 control -rw-r----- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 32 Jan 19 21:14 control.authcookie -rw-r----- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 1350116 Jan 19 21:14 log srw-rw-rw- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 0 Jan 19 21:14 socks -rw-r--r-- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 6 Jan 19 21:14 tor.pid
When DisableNetwork 1, run: systemctl --no-pager restart tor@default
user@host:~$ ls -l /var/run/tor/ total 1244 -rw-r----- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 32 Jan 19 21:00 control.authcookie -rw-r----- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 1269005 Jan 19 21:00 log
I searched on Tor-trac but did not find any similar report. Therefore, would you please tell me wether Tor intentionally behaves like this or this is a bug? (If this is a bug, I can definitely help to report it to Tor-trac.) Thank you so much! Best Regards, iry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEzKSpZKlpRovTotu+oUtNvG3N1TwFAlpifX0ACgkQoUtNvG3N 1TwLsBAAn8W3H7VMwiR9UwnVJoXOZ0iWRLbF/JdtDUjXcG1/cQmK5aEHtbVCy4Jl VOWYKBJeHxZAmHlBC+ZR3E/vyDesatjPDIPvzUuwYN3T0COFpMyN71ipOjs1KqYP GFFgLFzClQHvnThe59TIEomVcdXIt9ebPU3QmVxnNhvB/KKggKOgTuYd/n8R0efe 0kAl5/8vZZv4/IiorRkF/ltQwmnOTR1V2H1OrOOHM/AyxLGfwGO9KffznRDX/BN4 AdM4MWpMh3+DKCKgJZpf3Gzwcn7d6DvL74YQVIhmwofoxEOCBD/f+iYeJKkoVPw7 Pd8YHkYvXqCRqHBFfTEe4BtZdcxK2k3FXbUcbKahFDYMtdotdzknf542f6+Bbt+p hmiuJT8bX/Kn2dBzonbqJuh2XEBA2y6OqqhJaVoJr5l6tWyghp18BsA2m6W4mg2H ApkUTv0YsQ8guXckfJP2LOhXxKWN0yncQ7bMzGZSfSwtqGwrDxFFWk2V8vXIrWWL X5pz3oObvQB9eUJcKix2C29kJSGBry68Ts1x4MnL14CDw0WqNqAqe0O3IAiCANjl CU+z9P129eb/pdYXW/OTFnVyWhQBXNvCRHTZB7Yvym+dN4B6MD3uOkH9THf9BaCF yVCOK1c04/sfqADnpE3Rhkr98iix3N2gbdOod/10T+GyG4OBh64= =Oh0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----