On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:48:10AM +0530, Yash Kumar wrote:
> I want to setup my machine as a tor relay. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on
> a Intel i5 processor with 4 GB of memory.
> I followed the instructions given on this link
> <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide>, but was
> getting some issue. In one of the later steps, it says "Verify that your
> relay works". This is done by checking my logfile(syslog) contains the
> following text:
>
> "Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside.
> Excellent. Publishing server descriptor."
>
> I checked the syslog by the command:
>
> $ cat /var/log/syslog
>
>
> To bring it to your knowledge, I have followed all the previous steps
> mentioned on that link
> <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide>, and was
> successfully able to execute all the commands. I would request you to
> please help me out in setting up my machine as a relay to make tor network
> faster and more usable.
Hi,
first of all: Thanks for your efforts.
Although you didn't actually mention it, I'll assume that you didn't find the
"Self-testing" line in /var/log/syslog. Is that correct? If so, please check
first whether Tor has started at all by running the following command:
$ sudo systemctl status tor
Please copy the output of that command.
Alternatively, maybe also the following happened to you when you wanted to
check whether your relay works:
$ cat /var/log/syslog
cat: /var/log/syslog: Permission denied
If that's the case, please retry with:
$ sudo cat /var/log/syslog
If I didn't cover your problem here, please be more specific in what actually
doesn't work.
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