PIDFile not written/missing in tor-0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs

[phobos at rootme.org]

I'm assuming you've customized the makefile or passed a lot of
parameters to configure outside of the standard way to build an osx
tor.  If the pidfile isn't showing up with a stock config, then I'm out
of ideas.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:21:43AM -0700, OpenMacNews at speakeasy.net wrote 2.5K bytes in 98 lines about:
: hi,
: 
: >If you go back to a stock torrc config, does it put the file in
: >/private/var/run/Tor.pid as it should?
: 
: fair question.
: 
: short answer:  nope.
: 
: if i try to launch my build with 'stock' torrc, i get no launch, and no 
: errors in my syslog.  i'll worry abt this later ...
: 
: so, instead i commented out the pidfile stmt, letting it fall back to 
: default:
: 
: 
: editing in .../tor.conf,
: 
: 
: 
: case:
: 	...
: 	PidFile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
: 	...
: 
: on launch, syslog -->
: 
: 	Aug 25 10:12:36 devbox Tor: Initialized libevent version 1.1a using 
: 	method poll. Good.
: 	Aug 25 10:12:36 devbox Tor: write_pidfile(): Unable to open 
: "/var/Process/tor.pid" for writing: No such file or directory
: 	Aug 25 10:12:36 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening 
: 	Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
: 	Aug 25 10:12:36 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening 
: 	Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
: 	Aug 25 10:12:43 devbox Tor: Tor has successfully opened a circuit. 
: 	Looks like it's working.
: 
: still complaining abt the missing pidfile ...
: 
: 
: 
: case:
: 	...
: 	#PidFile "/var/Process/tor.pid"
: 	...
: 
: on launch, syslog -->
: 
: 	Aug 25 09:58:00 devbox Tor: Initialized libevent version 1.1a using 
: 	method poll. Good.
: 	Aug 25 09:58:00 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening 
: 	Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
: 	Aug 25 09:58:00 devbox Tor: connection_create_listener(): Opening 
: 	Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
: 	Aug 25 09:58:06 devbox Tor: Tor has successfully opened a circuit. 
: 	Looks like it's working.
: 
: 
: no error, but i can STILL find no trace of Tor.pid (the default ...)
: 
: 	% ls -al /private/var/run/Tor.pid
: 		/usr/local/bin/ls: /private/var/run/Tor.pid: No such file or 
: 		directory
: 
: hmm???
: 
: 	% /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
: 	% locate Tor.pid
: 	%
: 	% locate tor.pid
: 	%
: 
: 
: richard
: 
: p.s.  silly question:  what is "or-talk at freehaven.net", which is set as 
: your reply: string, rather than the list addr of "or-talk at seul.org"?  i 
: presume it's a mirror ... but have completely missed any reference to it @
:    <http://tor.eff.org/documentation.html#MailingLists>
: r/



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