[tor-relays] Weird issue caused downtime of my relay

[Aneesh Dogra]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:45 PM, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 11 Dec 2017, at 02:17, Aneesh Dogra <lionaneesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I run a tor exit relay named "rippedlion". I was out for vacation past
> few days and saw I had a 2 day downtime. I had a look at the logs and
> apparently /var/lib/tor got detected to be owned as <unknown>? How do I
> prevent this in future?
> >
> > Snippet from notices.log:
> >
> > Dec 08 06:54:57.000 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR
> circuit with purpose Acting as rendevous (pending)
> > Dec 08 06:56:25.000 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR
> circuit with purpose Acting as rendevous (pending)
> > Dec 08 07:00:21.000 [warn] /var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (root,
> 0) but by <unknown> (112). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
> > Dec 08 07:00:21.000 [err] Can't create/check datadirectory /var/lib/tor
> > Dec 08 07:00:21.000 [err] Unable to update Ed25519 keys!  Exiting.
>
> tor thought it was running as root when it logged that message.
> Are you sure your tor process doesn't run as root?
> Do you have a User option in your torrc or torrc-defaults file?
> Does it correspond to user id 112?
>
> Yes I *was* running tor as root and after the downtime changed it to a low
privileged user.


> > PS: I am now running tor; as a low privledged user that only has access
> to /var/lib/tor and /var/log/tor.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here - have you changed the user that tor
> runs as since the downtime?
>
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Regardless, I hope you're well and happy -
Aneesh
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