getting tor to start at boot on mac osx

User 165 user165 at neomailbox.com
Thu Apr 13 06:36:12 UTC 2006


On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:20 PM, phobos at rootme.org wrote:
>
> 	Odd, if the proper start scripts are installed to
> 	/Library/StartupItems, they are called at boot and shutdown.  If
> 	the start script errors out, that's a different problem.

	I looked through the console logs, and couldn't find any errors  
relating to tor.  I'm kind of new to this osx (and unix) stuff.

Here's a snippet of the system.log around where I see the privoxy start:
....
Apr 12 16:11:54 bob-computer kernel[0]: (44: SystemStarter)tfp:  
failed on 0:
Apr 12 16:11:54 bob-computer kernel[0]: (44: SystemStarter)tfp:  
failed on 0:
Apr 12 16:11:54 bob-computer kernel[0]: ATY,Wormy: vram  
[80000000:10000000]
Apr 12 16:11:54 bob-computer sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ 
Library/Privoxy ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/Library/Privoxy/privoxy -- 
pidfile /var/run/privoxy.pid
Apr 12 16:11:54 bob-computer kernel[0]: ATY,Wormy: vram  
[80000000:10000000]
Apr 12 16:11:55 bob-computer mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
Apr 12 16:11:55 bob-computer /System/Library/CoreServices/ 
loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application  
Started
Apr 12 16:11:55 bob-computer loginwindow[118]: Login Window Started  
Security Agent
Apr 12 16:11:56 bob-computer kernel[0]: AppleYukon - en0 link active,  
1000-Mbit, full duplex, symmetric flow control enabled
Apr 12 16:11:58 bob-computer kernel[0]: [IOAppleBluetoothHIDDriver] 
[init] IOBluetoothHIDDriver 1.1.4
Apr 12 16:11:58 bob-computer kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHIDDriver][init]  
IOBluetoothHIDDriver 1.1.4
Apr 12 16:11:59 bob-computer kernel[0]: [IOAppleBluetoothHIDDriver] 
[handleStart][00-0a-95-10-b8-2b] Done.
Apr 12 16:11:59 bob-computer kernel[0]: [IOAppleBluetoothHIDDriver] 
[waitForHandshake][00-0a-95-10-b8-2b] Unsuccessful Handshake: e00002c2
Apr 12 16:12:00 bob-computer configd[35]: executing /System/Library/ 
SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/enable-network
...

I don't see anything having to do with the Tor startup script.  I'm  
wondering if it's trying to start before the network is up?

> 	Otherwise, if in console, sudo -s, can you start Tor manually
> 	without errors?  "/Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor start"?

Yes, starts up with no problems.



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