On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:35:14PM -0700, Christopher Soghoian wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just tried to install Tor on a freshly installed copy of Mac OSX > Tiger (10.4). > > After rebooting, it seems that privoxy is up and running just fine, but tor will > not start automatically. > > privoxy is listed in the process list, while tor is not. > > I can start Tor by hand, using "/Library/Tor/tor", but if i try to use > the startup script, I get errors. > > As I understand it, Mac OS will run the script > "/Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor" by itself, with no params. That's not quite right. You need to run it with "start" or "stop" as an argument. Who told you to run it with no params? > If I start it by doing: "/Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor start", then it > gets a bit further, and then dies with: > > Jun 14 17:33:42.602 [notice] Torv0.1.0.10. This is experimental > software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. > Jun 14 17:33:42.681 [err] switch_id(): User '_tor' not found. > Jun 14 17:33:42.681 [err] init_from_config(): Acting on config options > left us in a broken state. Dying. Oh, interesting. It looks like the installer is supposed to create a _tor user for you, but isn't. Maybe it's busted on Tiger. Phobos: this would be a good place to start checking this out. yrs, -- Nick Mathewson
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