Hi Guys
I use munin to monitor a bunch of stuff (including tor) on my servers. The long run munin stats are quite useful.
I checked my stats today and noticed that there were no entries for tor on one machine going back a couple of weeks. Now I know I rebooted the machine in question about 12 days ago and I /think/ I upgraded tor at that time. Certainly the restart will have caused a regeneration of the cookie file anyway.
Checking my logs, I see the following from munin:
"Unable to connect to Tor ControlPort (515 Authentication failed: Wrong length on authentication cookie"
and similarly in the tor log: " Got authentication cookie with wrong length (16)"
Now I can see that the cookie file is 32 characters long, so I'm guessing that the file contains a control character that is screwing up the munin php plugin line "$cookie = file_get_contents($cookiepath);"
Anyone else seen this before? Any ideas for fixing it? - short of restarting tor again (I've done that and I'm reluctant to keep on stopping and starting what should be a stable server),
Thanks
Mick
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