Hi Tony, In addition to the answer of Roger: you can tell the Tor daemon to run as a specific user in torrc, like: User debian-tor and in my log files I can see that both the configuration files are read:
Aug 13 06:25:01.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc". Aug 13 06:25:01.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:57:49 -0400, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:41:39PM +0800, TonyXue wrote: >> Hi, >> Today when I was using htop to check my Tor server. I found that Tor was >> running as "/usr/sbin/tor --defaults-torrc >> /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush" which seems Tor is not >> using the configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc" but the default one instead. >> So what should I do to let Tor use /etc/tor/torrc? I tried to use >> "/usr/sbin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc --hush" but it returned that 'debain-tor' >> is the owner of '/var/lib/tor' not the user I was using. > > Hi Tony, > > Your tor, when started that way, does use /etc/tor/torrc as its torrc > file. It *also* uses /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc as its > backup "default defaults" torrc file. > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/release-0.2.3:/ReleaseNotes#l238 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4552 > > In short, everything is fine. > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
