Kurt Besig wrote: > I just set up a VPS on PulseServers as I noticed quite a few running > relays had mostly good things to say about the service. So Far the > people operating the servers seem very cooperative and responsive. > Anyway I've been running a middle relay for 1.5 years and know the > "ropes" pretty well, however a VPS is new to me. > After setting up Tor and tor-arm on the VPS I'm not able to connect > with this error: unable to reconnect (connection refused. Is the > ControlPort Enabled?) > I've edited ~/home/.arm/torrc and /etc/tor/torrc un-commenting the > ControlPort 9052 and all the other typical ports, etc.. Obviously I'm > not able to forward or enable ports on the VPS, so do I need to ask > the admin to make some changes?
The arm process needs to be either root's or _tor's (assuming that the tor process uses the _tor user). It's better not to use root, as it's unsafe. So, this will likely work: > sudo -u _tor arm _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
