Kurt Besig wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/2/2015 3:06 PM, Michael McConville wrote: > > 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 > > > I use debian_tor as my tor group, but I don't think that's the issue.
Did you try it (sudo -u debian_tor arm)? Worth a shot. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
