[tor-talk] Turning off all logging - how?

Rob de Graaf subscriptions at rdegraaf.nl
Wed Feb 23 21:23:34 UTC 2011


Use this:

--
# dump logs to black hole
Log notice file /dev/null
--

But why stop logging functionality reports? It doesn't contain sensitive information anyway.


On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Matthew wrote:

> How can I turn off all logging in .torrc?  Currently I have logfiles in /var/log/tor.
> 
> All logging entries in .torrc are hashed but, as mentioned, I still have logs.
> 
> Here is my .torrc:
> 
> ## Logs go to stdout at level "notice" unless redirected by something - we have no logs. 
> ## else, like one of the below lines. You can have as many Log lines as 
> ## you want. 
> ## 
> ## We advise using "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose 
> ## may provide sensitive information to an attacker who obtains the logs. 
> ## 
> ## Send all messages of level 'notice' or higher to C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Tor\notices.log 
> #Log notice file C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Tor\notices.log 
> ## Send every possible message to C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Tor\debug.log 
> #Log debug file C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Tor\debug.log 
> ## Use the system log instead of Tor's logfiles 
> #Log notice syslog 
> ## To send all messages to stderr: 
> #Log debug stderr
> 
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