On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:49:03PM -0600, Arrakis wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am having a problem with the "log" command for tor. When I execute
> the line "tor.exe log notice file log.txt" under win32, tor acts as
> though it doesn't recognize the option "file" as written in the tor
> manual.
Remember that spaces are handled by your command line interpreter
before they reach C. So while you meant to have a command line
equivalent to a torrc file of:
log notice file log.txt
Instead, Tor is breaking this command line into:
log notice
file log.txt
On Unix, you'd solve this by saying:
tor log "notice file log.txt"
so that the quotes would force the "notice file log.txt" part to be
treated as one value. I don't know whether this will work on Windows
or not, but the odds seem okay. Every OS needs a way to tell where
arguments end on the command line, right? ;)
>
> c:\tor\tor.exe log notice file tor.log
> Dec 14 22:45:27.443 [notice] Tor v0.1.1.25. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity.
> Dec 14 22:45:27.506 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Unknown option 'file'. Failing.
> Dec 14 22:45:27.506 [err] tor_init(): Reading config failed--see warnings above.
> For usage, try -h.
>
>
>
> Any ideas why that is? I have also noticed that the PidFile command
> doesn't work either, in that it will run but doesn't create the file.
Check out write_pidfile in util.c:
void
write_pidfile(char *filename)
{
#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
FILE *pidfile;
if ((pidfile = fopen(filename, "w")) == NULL) {
log_warn(LD_FS, "Unable to open \"%s\" for writing: %s", filename,
strerror(errno));
} else {
fprintf(pidfile, "%d\n", (int)getpid());
fclose(pidfile);
}
#endif
}
Hmmm. Looks like we couldn't find the equivalent of getpid() on
Windows, but looking at it now, I can't imagine why. MSDN says that
there's one living in process.h. I've checked in a fix as r9116,
which should get into the next alpha, assuming it doesn't turn out to
be way more complicated than it looks. Thanks for the reminder!
peace,
--
Nick Mathewson
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