[tor-dev] What's the explanation for weekly cycles in user graphs?

2015-03-17 Thread David Fifield
When you look at the user graphs, many of them show a weekly cycle. What's our explanation for why this occurs? I notice it strongly when I look at the graphs for the meek pluggable transport, where usage is high on weekdays and lower on weekends. The same thing happens in some per-country graphs.

Re: [tor-dev] #14995: adding multi-instance support to debian packages

2015-03-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >> I'll prepare a unit file for this and add it to the trac entry. a first version is there https://bugs.torproject.org/14995 >> Weasel wrote: >>> Tor trac is not the place to discuss Debian packaging >>> enhancements > > Right. In the specific c

Re: [tor-dev] 0.2.7 triage meeting

2015-03-17 Thread Isabela
Thanks everyone for voting, based on your vote I am picking the following date and time for our meeting: *Thursday March 19th, 13:30UTC at #tor-dev* We created a spreadsheet with all the tickets we need to triage: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H_kAcQQ-NpGpKWG9RlF3w-NhruKKE9EZJcRaXBQGVy

[tor-dev] Pluggable transports meeting tomorrow (16:00 UTC Wednesday 18th of March 2015)

2015-03-17 Thread Yawning Angel
(Trying to get these back onto a regular schedule now that dev-meeting madness is over.) Just wanted to remind you that the regular biweekly pluggable transports meeting is going to occur tomorrow at 16:00 UTC. Place is the #tor-dev IRC channel in the OFTC network. https://trac.torproject.org/pr

Re: [tor-dev] tor not starting with NoNewPrivileges = yes (systemd)

2015-03-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Zack Weinberg: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Nusenu > wrote: >> I had: Log debug file /var/log/tor/log >> but it is not being written to. > > This is *probably* because one of the missing privileges is the > ability to write to files in

Re: [tor-dev] tor not starting with NoNewPrivileges = yes (systemd)

2015-03-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Nusenu wrote: > I had: >>> Log debug file /var/log/tor/log > but it is not being written to. This is *probably* because one of the missing privileges is the ability to write to files in /var/log/tor. Try `Log debug stderr` instead -- you'll have to fish the logs

Re: [tor-dev] tor not starting with NoNewPrivileges = yes (systemd)

2015-03-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello Zack, thanks for your answer. Zack Weinberg: > Could you please put > > Log debug /tmp/tor-startup.log I had: >> Log debug file /var/log/tor/log but it is not being written to. (I disabled ExecStartPre for now). > in your torrc, try to st

Re: [tor-dev] tor not starting with NoNewPrivileges = yes (systemd)

2015-03-17 Thread Zack Weinberg
Could you please put Log debug /tmp/tor-startup.log in your torrc, try to start the daemon with NoNewPrivileges=yes, and then post the contents of /tmp/tor-startup.log ? We need to know exactly how it's failing. (We might actually need you to run it under `strace`, even.) zw ___

[tor-dev] tor not starting with NoNewPrivileges = yes (systemd)

2015-03-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I'm currently preparing/testing a systemd unit file (#14995) for debian (wheezy-backports/systemd 204) based on the one shipped by tor [1]. It does not work yet, and although the 'fix' would be easy - simply remove: NoNewPrivileges = yes I'd li

Re: [tor-dev] #14995: adding multi-instance support to debian packages

2015-03-17 Thread intrigeri
Nusenu wrote (17 Mar 2015 12:15:22 GMT) : > intrigeri: >> Just for the record, we've discussed this a few months ago with > Is there a trac entry? I don't think so. > I'll prepare a unit file for this and add it to the trac entry. \o/ > Weasel wrote: >> Tor trac is not the place to discuss Debi

Re: [tor-dev] #14995: adding multi-instance support to debian packages

2015-03-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 intrigeri: > Nusenu wrote (16 Mar 2015 14:09:13 GMT) : >> many relay operators run multiple tor instances to overcome >> certain limitations. Currently the official deb packages do not >> come with an easy configurable way to run multiple tor >> inst

Re: [tor-dev] #14995: adding multi-instance support to debian packages (patch)

2015-03-17 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Nusenu wrote (16 Mar 2015 14:09:13 GMT) : > many relay operators run multiple tor instances to overcome certain > limitations. Currently the official deb packages do not come with an > easy configurable way to run multiple tor instances. Just for the record, we've discussed this a few months