[tor-relays] build tor out of source -> permission problems?

[Patrice Bönig]

Hi @ list,

I am operating a relay for several years and I really do like it and 
will do it for more years.

My current relay residents on Pi 4. At first I installed it via apt but 
now the 32 Bit sources are no longer available. So I thought I could 
build the from source.

The building process went well but now I have a problem with the user 
permissions. I can't get tor really running.

_My first attempt was:_

To start tor with "systemctl start tor". But tor won't start and " 
journalctl -u tor" says only this:

Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts The Onion 
Router daemon
Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router 
daemon
Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Starts The Onion 
Router daemon
Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded.
Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Starts The Onion Router 
daemon
lines 1-6/6 (END)...skipping...
-- Logs begin at Thu 2019-02-14 11:11:59 CET, end at Fri 2021-01-22 
11:54:47 CET. --
Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts The Onion 
Router daemon processes...
Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router 
daemon processes.
Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Starts The Onion 
Router daemon processes...
Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded.
Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Starts The Onion Router 
daemon processes.

_My second attempt was:_

I changed the user of all tor files to the current user "pi". After that 
I was able to start tor with "tor --quiet" as user "pi". All went fine 
until I rebooted the system and all my changes to "pi" where changed to 
"debian-tor".

_My third attempt was:_

I did "sudo tor --quiet". It works, but in "notices.log" is the 
information that I shouldn't do that.


So, now I am standing here and don't know what to do. I would like to 
start tor via systemd but I don't know what's wrong (maybe the 
permissions). Does someone has a hint for me?

regards,
Karl


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