Hello together,

I've gotten myself stuck in a situation that I can't get out of. The following:

I have a working relay. You can find the config for it in the attachment [1].

I want to move parts of the config. So I use %include. I don't do anything else than moving parts of the working config to other files. There are no changes at all. But, tor does not start anymore.In the attachment [2] you can find the config with %include. The folder structure is the following:

├── info.html ├── rc.d │   ├── contact.rc │   ├── family.rc │   └── nickname.rc ├── torrc └── torsocks.conf

No matter what I do, I can't get it to enable debug logs when I start tor from the unit file. This is unchanged, but I attached it anyway [3].

Anyway, I start tor as root, then everything works [4]. I have no idea where something should be wrong with the permissions. I have also recursively set the permission of /etc/tor/ to the user debian-tor, but it doesn't help.

When I do the following:

cat rc.d/* >> torrc && sed -i /include/d torrc && systemctl restart tor

Everything works fine again.

My system: Linux privacy 5.10.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux Tor version 0.4.6.9. Tor is running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1k, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.5, Libzstd 1.4.8 and Glibc 2.33 as libc. Tor compiled with GCC version 10.2.1

Maybe I'm still too tired to figure it out. But please, can someone give me some advice where to look further? Or at least tell me how to get a debug log when I start tor from the systemd-unit. Then I would surely get further.

Thanks for your attention and help.

-- Martin