[tor-relays] Fw: Can't update tor relay on Debian, and notice about tor log file

Keifer Bly keifer.bly at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 21:14:24 UTC 2020


Torix, I just tried your workaround, the issue still occurs. Thank you.
--Keifer


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:58 PM <torix at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Keifer,
>
> Just guessing here, but have you tried reverting your sources.list to http?
>
> As for the notices and notices.1, this seems like normal linux log
> rotation.  See if you don't have an /etc/logrotate.d/tor file that gives
> the structure of how the tor log is handled.  Mine is set to rotate to a
> new file daily, so notices.log is renamed to notices.log.1, and the new log
> is notices.log. Notices.log.1 is zipped up to notices.2.tgz, and so on, and
> the last 5 days of files are kept before being deleted.
>
> --Torix
>
>
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 8:30 PM, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all, so for my bridge at
>
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/EF36AE38C162E96E0645E1DF25EF19522ADBAF90
>
>
>
> I am some reason unable to update tor and obfs4 to the newest version. Upon running sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y --only-upgrade tor
>
>
>
> I am getting an error saying that updating from such a resprrtory can’t be
> done securely and is therefor disabled by default. I have the following
> entered in Debian file  /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>
>
>
>
> deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org focal main
> deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org focal main
>
>
>
> So am not sure why it thinks this is insecure.
>
>
>
> Another thing I noticed, it seems that for some reason, for the tor
> traffic log file, it switches from writing to notices.log to notices.log.1
> automatically after a while, this happened on both my bridge and my relay
> though I did not tell it to do this.
>
>
>
> I wonder why the update error is happening, thank you.
>
>
>
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