On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:48:10AM +0530, Yash Kumar wrote:

I want to setup my machine as a tor relay. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Intel i5 processor with 4 GB of memory. I followed the instructions given on this link https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide, but was getting some issue. In one of the later steps, it says "Verify that your relay works". This is done by checking my logfile(syslog) contains the following text:

"Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor."

I checked the syslog by the command:

$ cat /var/log/syslog

To bring it to your knowledge, I have followed all the previous steps mentioned on that link https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide, and was successfully able to execute all the commands. I would request you to please help me out in setting up my machine as a relay to make tor network faster and more usable.

Hi,

first of all: Thanks for your efforts.

Although you didn't actually mention it, I'll assume that you didn't find the "Self-testing" line in /var/log/syslog. Is that correct? If so, please check first whether Tor has started at all by running the following command:

$ sudo systemctl status tor

Please copy the output of that command.

Alternatively, maybe also the following happened to you when you wanted to check whether your relay works:

$ cat /var/log/syslog cat: /var/log/syslog: Permission denied

If that's the case, please retry with:

$ sudo cat /var/log/syslog

If I didn't cover your problem here, please be more specific in what actually doesn't work.