Systemctl tor.service invalid - Tor does not restart on systemctl start tor command
Please refer to: https://askubuntu.com/questions/882527/tor-process-will-not-start-automatically-on-ubuntu-16-04/903341
When I looked at tor.service I find it's nothing more than a dummy file that only returns true if the tor.service is running and not the actual tor program itself:
This service is actually a systemd target,
but we are using a service since targets cannot be reloaded.
[Unit]
Description=Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/bin/true
ExecReload=/bin/true
So regardless if the TOR process is actually running or not, tor.service always returns TRUE. This is Invalid. and As a result running: sudo systemctl start|stop tor does nothing as you can see here:
● tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
** Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)**
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2017-12-10 14:24:42 EST; 9min ago
Main PID: 17641 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/tor.service
So for the moment the temporary fix is:
Removing or renaming offending file /lib/systemd/system/tor.service and reloading the scripts w/ systemctl daemon-reload. because the actual and correct script to start tor is in /etc/init.d/tor
After this modifcation the resulting output of sudo systemctl status tor:
● tor.service - LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes
** Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tor; bad; vendor preset: enabled)**
Active: active (exited) since Sun 2017-12-10 14:24:42 EST; 26min ago
Docs: !man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Main PID: 17641 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/tor.service
I believe the tor script in /etc/init.d/tor is incorrectly attempting to start/stop tor through tor.service as well.
Please correct this as soon as possible thank you !
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Username: d3m0nkingx