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Re: [tor-relays] confusing error from "tor --verify-config"



On 20 December 2016 at 19:23, Patrice <mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi folks,

my relay is running fine [zeiberschnitzel] and it got no errors. I can`t see anything in the logs either.
But when I do the command

#tor --verify-config

I got these outputs:

Dec 20 18:20:27.946 [notice] Tor v0.2.8.11 (git-9fc59eddc17a726a) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.1t and Zlib 1.2.8.
Dec 20 18:20:27.947 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Dec 20 18:20:27.947 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Dec 20 18:20:27.956 [warn] /var/lib/tor is not owned by this user (root, 0) but by debian-tor (105). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
Dec 20 18:20:27.957 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/var/lib/tor"
Dec 20 18:20:27.957 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.


I would say it`s nothing tragical but I am curios about it.


I would suggest running  tor --verify-config as debian-tor user instead of root
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