Ok, so when this happens, what would be the best command to use for reading the newest tor log?

I am also needing this for another relay, my middle relay at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/udeserveprivacy also keeps going offline with no warning and nothing written to the log file. Thanks.

--Keifer

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 3:39 PM <lists@for-privacy.net> wrote:

On Sonntag, 12. März 2023 04:45:21 CET Keifer Bly wrote:
> I do not use any scripts to start tor, I just type tor to start the process
> on debian.
That's where your problems begin. You start a 2nd tor process as root that
doesn't take the default configs from:
/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc & /etc/tor/torrc

You have a systemd system & tor.service is activated by default. You don't
have to do anything, tor runs automatically after a reboot|server start.

The systemd services are controlled with the following commands:
systemctl start tor.service
systemctl stop tor.service
systemctl restart tor.service
systemctl reload tor.service
systemctl status tor.service

> And yes the datacenter I run in has an external firewall which
> requires setting up port forwarding.
Ok, anything in the customer interface for the datacenter router.

> 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
There are 6 log files of one of the tor processes. Both write to syslog.

>
> So it's creating separate .gz files for some reason. I don't know why that
> is or what to do from here. Thanks.
I wrote, learn what _logrotate_ does. Hint: without that, the hd fills up.
man logrotate

>
>
>
> --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.
> >
> > --
> > ╰_╯ Ciao Marco!
> >
> > Debian GNU/Linux
> >
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