Re: [tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[Kurt Besig <kbesig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 12/2/2015 7:09 PM, Michael McConville wrote:
> Kurt Besig wrote:
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>> On 12/2/2015 3:06 PM, Michael McConville wrote:
>>> Kurt Besig wrote:
>>>> I just set up a VPS on PulseServers as I noticed quite a few 
>>>> running relays had mostly good things to say about the
>>>> service. So Far the people operating the servers seem very
>>>> cooperative and responsive. Anyway I've been running a middle
>>>> relay for 1.5 years and know the "ropes" pretty well, however
>>>> a VPS is new to me. After setting up Tor and tor-arm on the
>>>> VPS I'm not able to connect with this error:  I've edited
>>>> ~/home/.arm/torrc and /etc/tor/torrc un-commenting the
>>>> ControlPort 9052 and all the other typical ports, etc..
>>>> Obviously I'm not able to forward or enable ports on the VPS,
>>>> so do I need to ask the admin to make some changes?
>>> 
>>> The arm process needs to be either root's or _tor's (assuming
>>> that the tor process uses the _tor user). It's better not to
>>> use root, as it's unsafe. So, this will likely work:
>>> 
>>>> sudo -u _tor arm
>>> 
>> I use debian_tor as my tor group, but I don't think that's the
>> issue.
> 
> Did you try it (sudo -u debian_tor arm)? Worth a shot. 
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That's the cmd that leads to: unable to reconnect (connection refused.
>>>> Is the ControlPort Enabled?) in tor-arm
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