[tor-relays] Confusing bridge signs...

[Keifer Bly]

Well so the bridge now jumped to being online for 18 days. But despite the
torrc it is now saying it's still no distribution mechanism??

Thanks.
--Keifer


On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 10:23 AM Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> > >
>> > > It's free software and it gives you
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>>
>>
>> --
>> ╰_╯ Ciao Marco!
>>
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>>
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