On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 14:54 -0400, Daniel Walsh wrote: > Most likely this is tor running as root and trying to access this > file. I'm trying to start tor using 'systemctl start tor' and I haven't touched any systemd file. What I get in the logs when I try to start is polkitd[1097]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix- process:18981:211495106 (system bus name :1.27348 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.UTF-8) systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP... tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.746 [notice] Tor 0.2.9.16 (git- 645ef2e2854b2225) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips and Zlib 1.2.7. tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.746 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.746 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/defaults-torrc". tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.746 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.752 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ cannot be read: Permission denied tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.752 [warn] Checking service directory /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ failed. tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.752 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to configure rendezvous options. See logs for details. tor[18988]: Oct 23 20:26:10.752 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. systemd[1]: tor.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Anonymizing overlay network for TCP. How can I check which user it is trying to start as? Cheers Robin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos