[tor-relays] Warnings in log

Konrad Neitzel konrad at neitzel.de
Tue Oct 1 19:51:57 UTC 2013


Hi!

On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 15:00 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: 
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 08:42:51PM +0200, Konrad Neitzel wrote:
> > So I modified the /etc/security/limits.conf and added:
> > *               soft    nofile          65000
> > *               soft    nofile          65535

> Did you mean to write "hard" for one of these softs?

Ohh. That should have been "hard" on the second line. Stupid error on my
side which I corrected now. Will report if that solved the issue.

> > And now I also got the following warning:
> > Oct 01 18:25:19.000 [warn] Cannot get strong entropy: no entropy source
> > found.

> That sounds like a side effect of not having enough file descriptors.

> Are you using a Tor rpm (in which case maybe you should submit a patch
> for it), or just installing from source (in which case maybe you should
> use a Tor rpm)?

I installed tor from source. The distribution only provides the stable
version and the tor project does not have a rpm for opensuse. I thought
that it might be best to not use rpm that was build on different
distributions.

With kind regards,

Konrad
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