Hi allicoder, The images on Tor Cloud website have not been updated for a while. The project is lacking someone that can keep it up to date. I tried to take on the responsibility but so far I have failed to dedicate the necessary time. Sorry for the bad experience.
As far as the specific problem with the Cloud image itself, there is a script that is supposed to install the relay on first boot. See /etc/rc.local. You can also find that script here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-cloud.git/plain/ec2-prep.sh There are a couple of issues with the script itself that I noticed immediately: 1) the harcoded pgp key is expired 2) the debian experimental repository is returning a 404 W: Failed to fetch http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/experimental-precise/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 38.229.72.16 80] If you wish to do some trouble-shooting, try to get these commands to run without any errors: sudo apt-get -y update sudo apt-get -y upgrade sudo bash /etc/ec2-prep.sh bridge Finally, now that you have a running image and ssh access, you can just follow the Tor relay installations here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en I apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for running a relay. All the best, Sina "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi ----- On Mar 21, 2015, at 11:10 PM, aredoci...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to set up a tor relay on AWS using the free tier using the > instructions in various places (e.g. https://cloud.torproject.org/, > https://www.fak3r.com/2012/08/11/howto-run-a-tor-node-in-the-cloud-for-free/). > But sshing in from my PC shows clearly that not only is tor not running, it's > not even installed! > > ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-207:~$ aptitude show tor > Package: tor > State: not installed > Version: 0.2.5.11-1~precise+1 > Priority: optional > Section: net > ... > > ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-207:~$ ps -ely | grep tor > ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-207:~$ ls /var/log > alternatives.log auth.log btmp dist-upgrade dmesg.0 > dmesg.2.gz > fsck landscape mail.err news udev unattended-upgrades wtmp > apt boot.log cloud-init.log dmesg dmesg.1.gz dpkg.log > kern.log lastlog mail.log syslog ufw.log upstart > > Has something changed, and the images no longer include tor on start-up (I > made > sure I followed the gist of the cloud.torproject.org steps, given that the > interface has changed significantly; even went to the previous page from the > linked one to check that the AMI thing mentioned tor)? I've noticed various > people have posted online saying it's not safe to run Tor on cloud services - > has the image been deleted because of this? I wanted to try it anyway because > the main torproject website still says in several places that running a relay > on AWS is A Good Thing. > > Or did I just do something wrong? > > Best wishes, > allicoder. > > -- > PGP key available on request > _______________________________________________ > 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
