[tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[Kurt Besig]

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On 12/2/2015 3:06 PM, Michael McConville wrote:
> 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
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I use debian_tor as my tor group, but I don't think that's the issue.
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