Wow, I always thought that *was* the "safe" way to run arm. I wonder where we both got the advice to do it the dangerous way.
from ARM [ARM_NOTICE] Arm is currently running with root permissions. This is not a good idea, and will still work perfectly well if it's run with the same user as Tor (ie, starting with "sudo -u debian-tor arm").
~$ sudo -u debian-tor arm
You're using arm dangerously. See item #14 on https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian for the safer way to run arm with your Debian / Ubuntu relay.
<snip> > --Roger