how to autostart tor on osx?

[Thomas Hardly]

Anthony thanks for your idea on adding it to the user account
loginwindow.plist, that does work albeit the annoying term window...

Maybe Hedki and I can get something worked out. It sounds like he has
his StartupItem working in his tests. Now if I coul dmake it work ;)
If you have some time check it out:
http://www.anime.net/~sasami/pub/tor/torstartup.zip

As for and osx packages for tor and mixminion. I think making package
installers for both of these is a great idea and makes it easier for
users to access these privacy technologies and actually use them.


th


On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 01:56:57 -0600, Anthony K. <ak at freehaven.spes.ca> wrote:
> I spent hours on this, several months ago. I never got it to work. Which
> seemed impossible, really. Like you, I even tried adding a line to the
> Privoxy script in StartupItems....and Privoxy would start, but Tor would
> not. I tried running it from a StartupItems script alone on a single
> line; then mixing with other scripts, then with/out sudo, and then both
> with/out setuid/gid...I forget what all.
> 
> Nothing. Nada.
> 
> I intend to try again, but for now, I just go to the 'Accounts'
> PreferencePane and point directly at the bare 'tor' binary -- by default
> '/usr/local/bin/tor'. It leaves an ugly TERM window open, but it works,
> every time. (At one time I made a wrapper script, and pointed at that.
> But there is nothing I need which can't be done in the default
> '/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc' config file. YMMV.)
> 
> Other problems were placement of 'torrc' and the logfiles....but those
> are just *nix permissions problems, and can be fixed/setup any way you
> prefer.
> 
> Looking at the website, I see interest also in a OSX package of
> MixMinion. I guess I could try doing both, if there were interest?
> Assuming that this approach is possible -- and it (almost) must be.
> (Right? <LOL!>)
> 
> Anthony
> 
> PS: Do we get copies of our own "sends"? This is my second attempt.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Hardly wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions. I have the directory and script named
> > correctly. As I mentioned the console message "Starting Tor Service"
> > appears in my syslog every startup.
> >
> > I tried running the startup script it in the shell as you suggested
> > and as you can see below it is choking on the last line of the script
> > with the command:        RunService "$1"
> >
> > ---
> > sandbox:~ hard-mac$ sudo /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor
> > /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor: line 41: $1: unbound variable
> >
> >
> > th
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:09:34 -0800, Hideki Saito <hidekis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Same as yours...did you put it in /Library/StartupItems/Tor ?
> >>
> >>/Library/StartupItems/Tor/StartupParameters.plist
> >>/Library/StartItems/Tor/Tor
> >>
> >>It will not work unless you actually put in "Tor" directory. (In other
> >>word, "Tor" file inside this archive must match with directory name.
> >>
> >>After you install, what will have if you do:
> >>sudo /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor start?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:37:18 -0800, Thomas Hardly <hardmac at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>HI,
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for the file. I have been testing it two machines running
> >>>10.3.6 and have yet to make it work. The console message from the
> >>>startup file appears but yet it actually fails to start at all. I'm
> >>>not sure why it isn't working and have checked over file locations
> >>>etc. and all seems that it should be fine and working but alas it
> >>>isn't...
> >>>
> >>>What OS version have you been using this on?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>th
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:13:02 -0800, Hideki Saito <hidekis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Oops, I'm sorry, here's a file (if attachment works...)
> >>>>Put these files this into /Library/StartupItems/Tor
> >>>>
> >>>>I'll upload the same file into appropriate directory tonight, as well.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Thomas Hardly wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi Hideki,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks for your reply.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I get a 404 not found error for that link. I looked in the /pub/tor/
> >>>>>duirectory and didn't see anything that matched tha file you
> >>>>>mentioned?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thomas
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:53:08 -0800, Hideki Saito <hidekis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Try http://www.anime.net/~sasami/pub/tor/torstartup.zip
> >>>>>>Included is a set of script file to start up tor.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>There might be some case it won't start up right after restarting, in
> >>>>>>that case, you may have to manually issue command like 'killall tor'
> >>>>>>(In my purpose, I've just put that line in stop section...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:54:03 -0800, Thomas Hardly <hardmac at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I've been testing tor and privoxy on osx systems and am looking for a
> >>>>>>>method to have it autostart at system startup.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I've tried adding it to the end of the privoxy StartupItem as:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>/usr/local/bin/tor &
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>   but this doesn't seem to work.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I've created a stand alone StartupItem for tor, making it run Last at
> >>>>>>>startup and that still doesn't seem to work. Anyone have any
> >>>>>>>suggestions?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Cheers,
> >>>>>>>Thomas Hardly
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>--
> >>>>>>Hideki Saito mailto: hidekis at gmail.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>Hideki Saito mailto: hidekis at gmail.com
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 


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