Hi Christian

I think you lost that cup of coffee! I did a bit more research since my posting and found the info I needed by doing 'man tor' on my Ubuntu 14.04.3 system.

The tor man page says that tor looks for /etc/tor/torrc by default, or $HOME/.torrc if that file is not found. I only have an /etc/tor/torrc file and I am satisfied that it is being read correctly by tor.

The ARM_WARN message of which I originally complained is an arm problem, not a tor one, it seems.

Thanks to all those who replied.

Cheers

Q

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Christian <brightsidedarkside@t-online.de> wrote:



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Sorry, to dumb to handle Android Mail.
And prone to mistrust regarding my private address.

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Hi all,

I might miss the point, but as I also run Tor on Ubuntu, I can confirm it reads both config files, the default one and my torrc.
The default one makes sure e.g. privilege dropping to user debian-tor and a few other things in case you miss to set them properly.
My ORPort and other config is done via my torrc.
And I would bet a cup of tasty coffee that Tor on Ubuntu looks for /etc/torrc and not for /etc/tor/torrc, but I always lose when I'm willing to bet, so I guess it's just a little stubborn.

Greetings to you all.

Christian

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It normally uses /usr/bin/<service name>

On 21/09/2015 15:50, Sean Greenslade wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Tor Stuff wrote:
>> I am running tor on a new Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS system. I have
>> restarted tor a couple of times with
>>
>> service tor restart
>>
>> I noticed when I start arm that it is telling me that
>>
>> The torrc differs from what tor's using. You can issue sighup to
>> reload ...
>>
>> It seems that tor is running with default values and is not
>> reading /etc/tor/torrc as there is no ... -f /etc/tor/torrc
>> option being used by the running tor when it is displayed with
>> 'ps'.
>>
>> The 'ps' output for the tor instance is
>>
>> /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc
>> /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush
>>
>> I had asumed that because I have set DirPort to 80 and ORPort to
>> 443 in /etc/tor/torrc and can see in the tor log files that those
>> two ports are reachable from outside, that the running tor was
>> reading /etc/tot/torrc.
>>
>> Something is amiss with my tor configuration but I don't know
>> what.
>>
>> Any hints as to where to look would be welcome while I try to
>> RTFM again!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Q
>
> This isn't really a Tor issue, it's an Ubuntu one. But you need to
> figure out how "service" is launching Tor and change it to point to
> your /etc torrc.
>
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