Vidalia issue yet ANOTHER problem

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There are many log levels, well five I believe.  The more detailed/intense
the log level, the more information is presented to the "message window" in
vidalia.  For example, the "Notice" level will log only important messages,
and there are only a few of those.  However, if the conf, or vidalia
message window is set to the "debug" log level, a great deal of information
is presented.  On Windows Vista, the debug log level slows and halts
things, due to the shear level of information presented.  It should scroll
very intensely and rapidly at debug level, I don't recommend it when using
the vidalia message window.  You may find the logfile if you are logging to
the disk, will grow exponentially at this level.  I hope this helps.

Jon



On Mon, 11 May 2009 14:29:09 -0400, Praedor Atrebates <praedor at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Frankly, I have no idea what log level I am operating tor at because I am
> only 
> now trying to work with vidalia and have no idea what it's settings are
in 
> that regard.  I am trying to use vidalia with its defaults (at least as
> they 
> are in the mandriva rpm).  I DID alter the vidalia conf so that instead
of 
> stderr, tor is logging to /usr/local/var/log/tor/debug.log.
> 
> It took a while for me to figure out how Tork was doing things.  I think
it
> may 
> take at least a little for futzing before I figure out the basics of
> vidalia 
> too.
> 
> praedor
> 
> On Monday 11 May 2009 13:33:49 Jon wrote:
>> Praedor Atrebates wrote:
>> > On Saturday 09 May 2009 08:25:30 Andrew Lewman wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 8 May 2009 13:01:23 -0400
>> >>
>> >> Praedor Atrebates <praedor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>> I have had to give up on Tork and am now trying to make vidalia
>> >>> work.  I am unable to get vidalia to assign a password to the
control
>> >>> port.  How does one do this short of running vidalia as root?  It is
>> >>> preventing me from being able to support the tor network because I
do
>> >>> not want to run with no protected control port.
> [...]
>> > I have just confirmed yet another vidalia problem:  the log window, if
>>
>> opened,
>>
>> > scrolls rapidly and refuses to clear or close after I've opened it
>> > while
>> > vidalia is running.  All the buttons in the window become unresponsive
>>
>> and the
>>
>> > only way to close the window is to click the shutdown X in the window
>>
>> corner.
>>
>> > After that, in about 5 seconds, I get a message that the message
window
>>> is not
>> > responding and do I want to terminate the application or keep it
>>> running (it
>> > eats up lots of CPU too).  I hit "terminate" and it takes vidalia down
> 
>> with
>>
>> > it.
> 
>> What log level are you running when this occurs?