Then it's likely a permission issue. Have you tried running the command with sudo? (Or in FreeBSD, you may need to run it as su).



On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 4:01 PM, pa011 <pa011@web.de> wrote:
I saw that and tried "touch /var/log/tor" - didn’t help ..


Am 01.12.2016 um 23:57 schrieb Marcel Krzystek:
> It appears you have a space in "touch /var/log tor" that should not be there. Try "touch /var/log/tor" instead.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:54 PM, pa011 <pa011@web.de <mailto:pa011@web.de>> wrote:
>
>     There were some talks about network diversity recently, so I made up my mind and started a freeBSD server.
>
>     On advice from here https://gist.github.com/teor2345/c6e2890c44097fd6aaceeedec08c6431 <https://gist.github.com/teor2345/c6e2890c44097fd6aaceeedec08c6431> I placed a line in the torrc file "Log notice file /var/log/tor/log"
>
>     Following these instructions from the TDP:
>
>     "touch /var/log tor && chown _tor:_tor /var/log/tor && chmod 600 /var/log/tor"
>
>     found here: https://torbsd.github.io/fbsd-relays.html <https://torbsd.github.io/fbsd-relays.html> I ended up getting this warning:
>
>     "[warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file /var/log/tor/log': Permission denied"
>
>     Maybe I am to tired today to find the mistake - what is wrong please?
>
>     Is there a good instruction elsewhere?
>
>     Is it possible to install arm on freeBSD and if so could somebody help me with the implementation please?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Paul
>
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