Hello all
I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong list. Until recently and since some months back, I ran a tor relay under Linux, during daytime (only have my laptop), with 2.5/5MBps speed. Not much, it took an hour or two to really start, but it worked, I hope it helped a bit. Now I find I need to spend time in win7 more and I'd like to keep on running a relay, but I can't seem to get tor to work. Since the FAQ only says what Linux users should do and all my searches turned out to have Vidalia involved, I don't know how to make this work, so I'm asking for help: is there a place where I can read, or could you tell me what I need to do to run a relay in win7?
Thank you in advance, Vlad
I think it is much easier to start a VM with debian or something on your Win7, and run Tor there.
2016-01-19 15:56 GMT+02:00 je suis sfarcus@gmail.com:
Hello all
I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong list. Until recently and since some months back, I ran a tor relay under Linux, during daytime (only have my laptop), with 2.5/5MBps speed. Not much, it took an hour or two to really start, but it worked, I hope it helped a bit. Now I find I need to spend time in win7 more and I'd like to keep on running a relay, but I can't seem to get tor to work. Since the FAQ only says what Linux users should do and all my searches turned out to have Vidalia involved, I don't know how to make this work, so I'm asking for help: is there a place where I can read, or could you tell me what I need to do to run a relay in win7?
Thank you in advance, Vlad
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I think it is much easier to start a VM with debian or something on your Win7, and run Tor there.
2016-01-19 15:56 GMT+02:00 je suis sfarcus@gmail.com:
Hello all
I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong list. Until recently and since some months back, I ran a tor relay under Linux, during daytime (only have my laptop), with 2.5/5MBps speed. Not much, it took an hour or two to really start, but it worked, I hope it helped a bit. Now I find I need to spend time in win7 more and I'd like to keep on running a relay, but I can't seem to get tor to work. Since the FAQ only says what Linux users should do and all my searches turned out to have Vidalia involved, I don't know how to make this work, so I'm asking for help: is there a place where I can read, or could you tell me what I need to do to run a relay in win7?
Thank you in advance, Vlad
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I think it is much easier to start a VM with debian or something on your
Win7, and run Tor there.
If this were the case I'd be better off by modifying the tor-browser and leave it running, but I'm concerned by the resources it would take. The browser alone, freshly started, eats up some 300k of memory. Browsing and all and it gets pretty hungry, not to mention there will be some amount of CPU usage, too. I wonder how the VM would fare in this matter.
Even if I say I need to use win7 these days that doesn't mean I'm looking for an easy way to do it; as many steps as there are required, that's how many I'll take, but I'd rather be tor alone that runs, not a whole army. Is it possible or am I chasing a dream? Maybe reuse torrc and the tor key from linux (actually, that was what I was hoping for)?
Vlad
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 02:43:15PM +0000, je suis wrote:
Even if I say I need to use win7 these days that doesn't mean I'm looking for an easy way to do it; as many steps as there are required, that's how many I'll take, but I'd rather be tor alone that runs, not a whole army. Is it possible or am I chasing a dream? Maybe reuse torrc and the tor key from linux (actually, that was what I was hoping for)?
Yes, this should be pretty easy to do. Grab the tor.exe out of the tor browser (you might need the whole directory, if there are dll's or something in it). Then grab your torrc and datadirectory from the old relay: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#UpgradeOrMove Make sure the torrc points to the new datadirectory, and consider adding a log file: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#Logs
And then run "tor -f torrc" from a cmd shell.
Once you've got it working, there are probably ways to make it more fun, e.g. making a batch file that you can click-click.
There is also, sometimes, a "Tor windows expert bundle" available on the download page, which would mean you don't need to extract stuff from the Tor Browser directory yourself. I say 'sometimes' because we haven't been super great about keeping it up to date lately. Give it a try and see.
Oh, and lastly, there are still some fundamental limitations of fast relays on Windows, e.g. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/98 which come from us believing the Windows developer documentation when we shouldn't have: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#BestOSForRelay
Good luck! --Roger
There is also, sometimes, a "Tor windows expert bundle" available on the download page, which would mean you don't need to extract stuff from the Tor Browser directory yourself. I say 'sometimes' because we haven't been super great about keeping it up to date lately. Give it a try and see.
That's what I tried to run, but it shows up a second in the task manager and it's gone. Run as admin, user, with full path, relative path, tor -f bla/bla/torrc, nothing.
Yes, this should be pretty easy to do. Grab the tor.exe out of the tor browser (you might need the whole directory, if there are dll's or something in it). Then grab your torrc and datadirectory from the old relay: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#UpgradeOrMove Make sure the torrc points to the new datadirectory, and consider adding a log file: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#Logs
And then run "tor -f torrc" from a cmd shell.
I'll give it a try to this now. I'll return with results, who knows, some other may benefit. Running in Linux was a bliss, install, properly make the torrc, run as service. Oh, I also tried adding it as a service in win7, succeeded, but it failed, too.
Good luck!
Thank you, I have a feeing I'll need some.
Vlad
Well, it seems to be running, as a process, at least. It won't run with other ports but it does with the defaults ones, fine with me. I had to modify the log paths to be for win7 and it seems it only starts if run as admin. Again, fine with me, maybe I'll convince it to run as a service, too.
BTW, if I'm at it, I use Linux Mint 17.3, the service has a less than 1% chance of starting automatically at startup. I always have to fire up the terminal after logon and "sudo tor service start". Thought I'd let you know. For me, if it works...
Thank you for the help, Vlad
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