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Re: Logging to a file?

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Subject: Re: Logging to a file?
From: Martin Balvers <m.balvers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:45:12 +0200
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Hi,

The Tor user needs write permission on the log directory and logfiles.

greets,
Martin

Ron Davis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How do I get Tor 0.9.9.9 to log to a file? I uncommented the "log
> notice" and "log debug-info" lines in torrc. However, this only appears
> to work when I run Tor as root (which I don't want). Running Tor as a
> normal user, the log files remain empty.
> 
> I also tried alternative paths to both files. This didn't work either.
> 
> Running Tor as a normal user, logging to stderr (screen) does work.
> 
> FreeBSD 4.11-REL.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ron


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