Re: Who hast to build the notices.log?

[Казаков Михаил <gnomino@xxxxxxxxx>]

03.03.09, 12:56, "glinka fjodor" <fjodor.glinka@xxxxx>:

> I have installed tor rom the sources via ./configure / make / make install. From what i see it went well. I have enabled 
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> Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
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> in my torrc. When i start tor i get the error 
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> Mar 03 10:43:56.377 [warn] Couldn't open file for 'Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log': Permission denied
> Mar 03 10:43:56.377 [notice] Closing partially-constructed listener Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
> Mar 03 10:43:56.377 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to init Log options. See logs for details.
> Mar 03 10:43:56.377 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
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> Ok, the folder doesn' t exist. I` ve created the folder /var/log/tor
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> drwxr-x---  2 root        staff     4096  2. Mär 11:00 tor
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> This is a 755 On my system the standard would be a 750.
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> Anyway, on next startup i got the same error message. So i created a notices.log with a chmod 742 (!). Now i am getting notices.
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> BUT is this the normal way to install tor from sources? I assumed that tor would create a log folder and a log file. Maybe i simple ./configure wasn' t enough?
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> I haven ' t tried it, but is a make uninstall possible?
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The directory /var/log/tor mast be owned by  special tor user (cat /etc/passwd|grep tor): chown _tor  /var/log/tor/ 
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