PIDFile not written/missing in tor-0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs
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Thu Aug 25 05:22:08 UTC 2005
hi,
thanks 4 the reply =)
> Interesting, change the case of the PIDFile torrc to Pidfile and see if
> that works.
>
> Line 161 of config.c looks for:
> VAR("PidFile", STRING, PidFile, NULL),
>
> not PIDFile. This could be a documentation bug.
ok, let's try some games ...
in each of the following cases for changing tor.conf -->
PidFile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
Pidfile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
pidfile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
i find NO pid file ...
% ls /var/Process/tor.pid
/usr/local/bin/ls: /var/Process/tor.pid: No such file or directory
checking my syslog, i find in each case:
...
Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method
poll. Good.
Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: write_pidfile(): Unable to open
"/var/Process/tor.pid" for writing: No such file or directory
Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening Socks
listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Aug 24 21:58:37 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening Control
listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Aug 24 21:58:43 devbox Tor: Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like
it's working.
...
hmmmm. it's running ... but no pid.
looking for write_pidfile() in src/or/config.c ...
...
/* Write our pid to the pid file. If we do not have write permissions we
* will log a warning */
if (options->PidFile)
write_pidfile(options->PidFile);
...
do i have a perms issue?
% ls -ald /var/Process
drwxrwxr-x 6 devuser devgrp 204 Aug 24 21:35 /var/Process
shouldn't be :-/
something's odd ... is it me?
cheers,
richard
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