(FWD) OS/X Installer

[Eddie]

The installer appears to have been built from a client only perspective 
(which is what 99% of people need).  The commands I was using to try to 
see what application was running on the ports (as well as the ps 
commands) did not show Tor running, but it had to have been operator 
error. :-)   I confirmed with a a GUI tool (Activity Monitor, included 
in OS/X) that both Tor and Privoxy were running on the system so that 
confirms why I could not bring up an instance that had been configured 
as a server.

I was greatly confused by how the installer does it's thing on OS/X as 
some of its behavior didn't seem to follow what the torrc file 
suggested.  Using the OS/X installer things are scattered all over the 
place and you have to enable the root user to get at certain 
files/directories.  Part of the confusion is a lack of understanding 
what is supposed to go where on OS/X, but with Windows the program is 
under Program Files and data is under the Application Data directory so 
it is much simpler.  I wish that the default location for everything 
(torrc, fingerprint, keys, logs, etc.) was in the same folder (or a 
subfolder) wherever the tor binary is located no matter what platform.

Adam Shostack wrote:

>Tor ...96 works for me on 10.3.8
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>But I do notice that the default install on a mac does not filter
>user-agent.  This is probably a good thing; it helps bad web sites
>work, but maybe document it?
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