On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 13:36 +0300, J.C. wrote:
So far I haven't seen any other error messages than something about a failed DNS server, which always corrects itself half a second or so afterwards, stating nameservers are back up. It's running on a 100/10 connection, pushing as much upstream as possible, maybe my bandwidth isn't sufficient to trigger that error?
Now that you mentioned torrc, i think one problem i encountered was that installing Tor didn't create a torrc file anywhere on my system, or it was a blank file. I copied a template torrc file contents from a TBB from that time but it didn't work, always reverting to a blank torrc. Anyway, that's probably best left for troubleshooting at a later time if it happens again. I'm still quite new to Linux and it's more than possible i screwed up somewhere.
Thanks for checking. :)
Hello JC,
Don't be shy of running tor, you can get support here. As for managing tor directly from conf files, it isn't so scary even if you are a newbie. If you'd followed the latest threads you would new that there is recommendation on upgrading to 0.2.4.x. So assuming you would want to do that:
https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#ubuntu
After that, you should just need to edit /etc/tor/torrc and:
# service tor restart
The conf file is self-explained through comments, with verbose examples on how to do things with tor. Also, don't forget to give contact info on your node so people can contact you in case they see misbehavior on your machine.
Shout here if you run into trouble.