So I am starting a new middle relay using a VPS hosted on Google Cloud running Debian. though the relay is running, it is not appearing in the consensus after 10 hours. Here is the tor log, any thoughts on what is going on would be greatly appreciated thank you.
May 15 18:23:47.096 [notice] Opening OR listener on
0.0.0.0:65534May 15 18:23:47.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /usr/share/tor/geoip.
May 15 18:23:47.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /usr/share/tor/geoip6.
May 15 18:23:47.000 [notice] Configured to measure statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the data directory in 24 hours from now.
May 15 18:23:47.000 [warn] You are running Tor as root. You don't need to, and you probably shouldn't.
May 15 18:23:47.000 [notice] Your Tor server's identity key fingerprint is 'torworld 3A4E582092E7C6B822EC01F4D76F680F6C65B0A2'
May 15 18:23:47.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0%: Starting
May 15 18:23:50.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network
May 15 18:23:51.000 [notice] Guessed our IP address as 35.238.140.120 (source: 193.23.244.244).
May 15 18:23:52.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with first hop
May 15 18:23:52.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit
May 15 18:23:53.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.
May 15 18:23:53.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done
May 15 18:23:53.000 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort
35.238.140.120:65534 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating success)
May 15 18:23:54.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent.
May 15 18:23:56.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
May 16 00:23:50.000 [notice] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached consensus.
May 16 00:23:50.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 5:59 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 789 kB and received 7.41 MB.
May 16 00:23:50.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 100.000%. TLS write overhead: 27%
May 16 00:23:50.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 0/0 TAP, 6/6 NTor.
May 16 00:23:50.000 [notice] Since startup, we have initiated 0 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 0 v3 connections, and 8 v4 connections; and received 1 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 0 v3 connections, and 6 v4 connections.
May 16 00:23:50.000 [notice] DoS mitigation since startup: 0 circuits rejected, 0 marked addresses. 0 connections closed. 0 single hop clients refused.
May 16 00:58:51.000 [warn] Received http status code 404 ("Not found") from server '
45.62.242.212:9030' while fetching consensus directory.
I also had another thing I wanted to ask. I am working on a crontab script to automatically update and restart the tor relay once a month automatically, as I am already running a bridge on another network that needs to be updated manually.
Does this script look like it would get the job done? I don't have much experience with crontab.