[tor-relays] 'service tor start' not using "/etc/tor/torrc"?

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Hi Tony,

In addition to the answer of Roger: you can tell the Tor daemon to run
as a specific user in torrc, like:
User debian-tor
and in my log files I can see that both the configuration files are
read:

Aug 13 06:25:01.000 [notice] Read configuration file
"/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc".
Aug 13 06:25:01.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".


On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:57:49 -0400, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:41:39PM +0800, TonyXue wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Today when I was using htop to check my Tor server. I found that Tor was running as "/usr/sbin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush" which seems Tor is not using the configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc" but the default one instead.
>> So what should I do to let Tor use /etc/tor/torrc? I tried to use "/usr/sbin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc --hush" but it returned that 'debain-tor' is the owner of '/var/lib/tor' not the user I was using.
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> Your tor, when started that way, does use /etc/tor/torrc as its torrc
> file. It *also* uses /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc as its
> backup "default defaults" torrc file.
> 
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/release-0.2.3:/ReleaseNotes#l238
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4552
> 
> In short, everything is fine.
> 
> --Roger
> 
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