I do not use any scripts to start tor, I just type tor to start the process on debian. And yes the datacenter I run in has an external firewall which requires setting up port forwarding.
The result of running ls -A /var/log/tor
root@instance-1:/home/keifer_bly# ls -A /var/log/tor notices.log notices.log.1 notices.log.2.gz notices.log.3.gz notices.log.4.gz notices.log.5.gz root@instance-1:/home/keifer_bly#
So it's creating separate .gz files for some reason. I don't know why that is or what to do from here. Thanks.
--Keifer
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:15 AM lists@for-privacy.net wrote:
On Mittwoch, 8. März 2023 18:13:01 CET Keifer Bly wrote:
Strangely, nothing whatsoever is being written to the notices.log file, upon checking it it is completely empty, nothing there.
That can't be, please post: ~# ls -A /var/log/tor
In general, everything is always written to /var/log/syslog & systemd-journald to /var/log/journal (binaries). ~$ man journalctl
I wonder why that
Read what _logrotate_ does. Every tor restart creates a new empty log file.
would happen and how else to tell what's going on? Tor is running as root
Why do you change security-related default settings? Default tor user is: debian-tor. (On Debian and Ubuntu systems)
so it's not a permission issue, and I also set up a port forwarding rule
Why? You have a server in the data center. You only need forwarding on a router! Packet forwarding is also disabled in /etc/sysctl.conf per default.
Your iptables must start like this. *filter :INPUT DROP [0:0] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] ... -A INPUT -p tcp --dport <Your-Tor-ORPort> -j ACCEPT ...
No FORWARD, no OUTPUT rules.
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