[tor-relays] Confusing bridge signs...

[Keifer Bly]

Ok, so when this happens, what would be the best command to use for reading
the newest tor log?

I am also needing this for another relay, my middle relay at
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/udeserveprivacy also keeps
going offline with no warning and nothing written to the log file. Thanks.
--Keifer


On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 3:39 PM <lists at for-privacy.net> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 12. März 2023 04:45:21 CET Keifer Bly wrote:
> > I do not use any scripts to start tor, I just type tor to start the
> process
> > on debian.
> That's where your problems begin. You start a 2nd tor process as root that
> doesn't take the default configs from:
> /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc & /etc/tor/torrc
>
> You have a systemd system & tor.service is activated by default. You don't
> have to do anything, tor runs automatically after a reboot|server start.
>
> The systemd services are controlled with the following commands:
> systemctl start tor.service
> systemctl stop tor.service
> systemctl restart tor.service
> systemctl reload tor.service
> systemctl status tor.service
>
> > And yes the datacenter I run in has an external firewall which
> > requires setting up port forwarding.
> Ok, anything in the customer interface for the datacenter router.
>
> > The result of running ls -A /var/log/tor
> >
> > root at instance-1:/home/keifer_bly# ls -A /var/log/tor
> > notices.log  notices.log.1  notices.log.2.gz  notices.log.3.gz
> >  notices.log.4.gz  notices.log.5.gz
> There are 6 log files of one of the tor processes. Both write to syslog.
>
> >
> > So it's creating separate .gz files for some reason. I don't know why
> that
> > is or what to do from here. Thanks.
> I wrote, learn what _logrotate_ does. Hint: without that, the hd fills up.
> man logrotate
>
> >
> >
> >
> > --Keifer
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:15 AM <lists at for-privacy.net> wrote:
> > > On Mittwoch, 8. März 2023 18:13:01 CET Keifer Bly wrote:
> > > > Strangely, nothing whatsoever is being written to the notices.log
> file,
> > > > upon checking it it is completely empty, nothing there.
> > >
> > > That can't be, please post:
> > > ~# ls -A /var/log/tor
> > >
> > > In general, everything is always written to /var/log/syslog &
> > > systemd-journald
> > > to /var/log/journal (binaries).
> > > ~$ man journalctl
> > >
> > > > I wonder why that
> > >
> > > Read what _logrotate_ does. Every tor restart creates a new empty log
> > > file.
> > >
> > > > would happen and how else to tell what's going on? Tor is running as
> > > > root
> > >
> > > Why do you change security-related default settings? Default tor user
> is:
> > > debian-tor. (On Debian and Ubuntu systems)
> > >
> > > > so it's not a permission issue, and I also set up a port forwarding
> rule
> > >
> > > Why? You have a server in the data center. You only need forwarding on
> a
> > > router! Packet forwarding is also disabled in /etc/sysctl.conf per
> > > default.
> > >
> > > Your iptables must start like this.
> > > *filter
> > >
> > > :INPUT DROP [0:0]
> > > :FORWARD DROP [0:0]
> > > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> > >
> > > ...
> > > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport  <Your-Tor-ORPort> -j ACCEPT
> > > ...
> > >
> > > No FORWARD, no  OUTPUT rules.
> > >
> > > --
> > > ╰_╯ Ciao Marco!
> > >
> > > Debian GNU/Linux
> > >
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>
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>
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