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

[Billy Humphreys]

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It normally uses /usr/bin/<service name>

On 21/09/2015 15:50, Sean Greenslade wrote:
> 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 _______________________________________________ tor-relays
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