[tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[Michael McConville]

Kurt Besig wrote:
> I just set up a VPS on PulseServers as I noticed quite a few running
> relays had mostly good things to say about the service. So Far the
> people operating the servers seem very cooperative and responsive.
> Anyway I've been running a middle relay for 1.5 years and know the
> "ropes" pretty well, however a VPS is new to me.
> After setting up Tor and tor-arm on the VPS I'm not able to connect
> with this error: unable to reconnect (connection refused. Is the
> ControlPort Enabled?)
> I've edited ~/home/.arm/torrc and /etc/tor/torrc un-commenting the
> ControlPort 9052 and all the other typical ports, etc.. Obviously I'm
> not able to forward or enable ports on the VPS, so do I need to ask
> the admin to make some changes?

The arm process needs to be either root's or _tor's (assuming that the
tor process uses the _tor user). It's better not to use root, as it's
unsafe. So, this will likely work:

> sudo -u _tor arm