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

[William Kane]

Permissions issue of /var/lib/tor / DataDirectory most likely, and Tor
can't fix it itself since it's likely owned by root, however the
systemd unit starts it under a separate user.

2021-01-22 12:03 GMT, Patrice Bönig <mailinglist at pboenig.de>:
> 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
>
>
>