Hello,

I've been trying to set up a tor relay on AWS using the free tier using the instructions in various places (e.g. https://cloud.torproject.org/, https://www.fak3r.com/2012/08/11/howto-run-a-tor-node-in-the-cloud-for-free/). But sshing in from my PC shows clearly that not only is tor not running, it's not even installed!

ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-207:~$ aptitude show tor Package: tor State: not installed Version: 0.2.5.11-1~precise+1 Priority: optional Section: net ...

ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-207:~$ ps -ely | grep tor ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-207:~$ ls /var/log alternatives.log auth.log btmp dist-upgrade dmesg.0 dmesg.2.gz fsck landscape mail.err news udev unattended-upgrades wtmp apt boot.log cloud-init.log dmesg dmesg.1.gz dpkg.log kern.log lastlog mail.log syslog ufw.log upstart

Has something changed, and the images no longer include tor on start-up (I made sure I followed the gist of the cloud.torproject.org steps, given that the interface has changed significantly; even went to the previous page from the linked one to check that the AMI thing mentioned tor)? I've noticed various people have posted online saying it's not safe to run Tor on cloud services - has the image been deleted because of this? I wanted to try it anyway because the main torproject website still says in several places that running a relay on AWS is A Good Thing.

Or did I just do something wrong?

Best wishes, allicoder.