On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 07:20:03PM +0200, shraptor wrote:
What's up with these messages I get in tor-arm and log?
Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor [62 duplicates hidden]
What is tor doing??
Sep 20 19:10:21.000 [notice] Caching new entry debian-tor for debian-tor
It looks like this notice-level entry was changed to an info-level entry starting in Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha:
$ git show 251f6cfc commit 251f6cfcd829d3f7b8ac7bce8477a6e14ad47a1e Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Thu Feb 19 12:30:34 2015 -0500
Quiet "caching debian-tor for debian-tor" notice
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c index fde65d9..1788e32 100644 --- a/src/common/compat.c +++ b/src/common/compat.c @@ -1793,8 +1793,8 @@ tor_getpwnam(const char *username) if ((pw = getpwnam(username))) { tor_passwd_free(passwd_cached); passwd_cached = tor_passwd_dup(pw); - log_notice(LD_GENERAL, "Caching new entry %s for %s", - passwd_cached->pw_name, username); + log_info(LD_GENERAL, "Caching new entry %s for %s", + passwd_cached->pw_name, username); return pw; }
So it looks like you are running an old version of Tor? You should upgrade and the line should go away. In any case it should be harmless.
Hope that helps, --Roger