Hello all,
I've run an exit node from my home in the past using my consumer ISP service (Time Warner) and Windows 8, I'm pretty much of a Windows guy (I make my living building business applications with Microsoft tools) but now I have an opportunity to run an exit node on a hosted server running CentOS linux. I've loaded CentOS at home to test it out and the problem I'm having is that I can't get the Vidalia control to run. The browser bundle works OK - I can open FireFox and make a Tor connection. As far as I know I've downloaded the correct files for CentOS linux and I have the Vidalia start icon. However nothing happened when I try to open the Vidalia icon. Since I'm not familiar with linux, I don't know where to start looking. I had assumed that I would just open Vidalia and set up my exit relay the same way I did on Windows 8.
I greatly appreciate help with this especially from someone who's configured a relay on CentOS.
Thanks,
Chuck Bevitt
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:30:45 -0700 "Chuck Bevitt" Tor@Bevitt.ws wrote:
I greatly appreciate help with this especially from someone who's configured a relay on CentOS.
I assume you have some familiarity with editing a torrc. If so the standard thing to do when running relays on U*IX systems is to not use vidalia at all, but to run tor as a service.
The Tor Project provides RPMs suitable for Centos 6 for this purpose.
The repo is at: http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/el/6/
The PGP key used to sign the RPMs are available at: http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-torproject.org.asc
You can add the repository to the yum, `yum install tor`. The `torrc` for tor installed this way lives in `/etc/tor/torrc`. The RPM also integrates it as a system service, so you can have it auto start on boot if desired. You may also need to configure iptables to allow connections to the ORPort and DirPort.
Good luck and thanks for running a relay!
tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
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