On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 15:53 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/29/2017 11:59 AM, Mark wrote: > > As I don't know what dac_override is I don't know if it's a good > > idea > > to give it to tor and the confidence seems quite low. > > > dac_override indicates that you're running your process as root, and > it's trying to do something on the filesystem which is not > explicitly > allowed by permissions. DAC is the standard POSIX permission > system, > and the process is trying to override it. DAC allows access to the > toranon user and toranon group only, and the process is trying to > override that access by way of root access. That's strange, because I started the tor process simply with sudo systemctl start tor The only changes I've really made was to add two lines of configuration in torrc Cheers Mark