[tor-relays] Relay Or/Dirport Unreachable

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:55:39PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Damian Johnson wrote:
> > > activities from the command line. First, "sudo apt install nyx".
> > > Second, as the user that will be running nyx, run "sudo adduser $USER
> > > debian-tor" to add your user to the debian-tor group so it can reach
> > > Tor's controlsocket. Then log out and log back in (so your user is
> > > actually in the group), and run "nyx".
> > > """
> > 
> > Thanks Roger. Dumbish question but if we replace 'Then log out and log
> > back in' with 'run "reset" in your console' will that do the trick?
> 
> No, reset(1) just affects terminal (tty) settings, it does not affect the
> active group list for the current login session.  There isn't a better
> solution than logging out and logging back in.

Agreed.

Do the adduser line, and then log out and log in again, and then your
nyx should work out of the box.

--Roger