[tor-relays] Tor is starting without the -f /etc/tor/torrc option

[Sean Greenslade]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Tor Stuff wrote:
> I am running tor on a new Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS system. I have restarted tor a
> couple of times with
> 
>   service tor restart
> 
> I noticed when I start arm that it is telling me that
> 
>   The torrc differs from what tor's using. You can issue sighup to reload
> ...
> 
> It seems that tor is running with default values and is not reading
> /etc/tor/torrc as there is no
>   ... -f /etc/tor/torrc
> option being used by the running tor when it is displayed with 'ps'.
> 
> The 'ps' output for the tor instance is
> 
>    /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc
> --hush
> 
> I had asumed that because I have set DirPort to 80 and ORPort to 443 in
> /etc/tor/torrc and can see in the tor log files that those two ports are
> reachable from outside, that the running tor was reading /etc/tot/torrc.
> 
> Something is amiss with my tor configuration but I don't know what.
> 
> Any hints as to where to look would be welcome while I try to RTFM again!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Q

This isn't really a Tor issue, it's an Ubuntu one. But you need to
figure out how "service" is launching Tor and change it to point to your
/etc torrc.

--Sean