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.