Re: PIDFile not written/missing in tor-0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs

[phobos@xxxxxxxxxx]

If you go back to a stock torrc config, does it put the file in
/private/var/run/Tor.pid as it should?

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:20:49AM -0700, OpenMacNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote 1.5K bytes in 61 lines about:
: hi,
: 
: 
: >>: do i have a perms issue?
: >>:
: >>: % ls -ald /var/Process
: >>: 	drwxrwxr-x  6 devuser devgrp 204 Aug 24 21:35 /var/Process
: >>:
: >>: shouldn't be :-/
: >>:
: >>: something's odd ... is it me?
: 
: >Most likely, it is you. :)
: 
: heh. yeah, well. THERE'S a surprise!  ;-D
: 
: >I'm unable to replicate this on 10.4.2 or 10.3.9 with 0.1.0.14.  What
: >user does your tor daemon run as?  In OSX, it's _tor by default, if that
: >doesn't have access to the /var/Process/ directory, it can't write to
: >it.  In your example, is _tor(or whatever user you run it as) a member
: >of devgrp?
: 
: yes.  from my tor.conf (torrc):
: 
:    User devuser
:    Group devgrp
: 
: checking:
: 
:    % ls -ald /var/Process
:        drwxrwxr-x  6 devuser devgrp 204 Aug 24 21:35 /var/Process
: 
: and:
: 
:    % ps -aux
:    ...
:    devuser   878   0.0  0.4    30424   3472  ??  S     9:17AM   0:06.42 
: /usr/local/tor/bin/tor -f /var/Settings/Tor/tor.conf
:    ...
: 
: all looks as it should ... argh. grumble.
: 
: richard



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