I think, that the log file permissions are too weak in moment, this helps: ``` tfoerste@t44 ~/devel/tor $ cat /tmp/log640.patch diff --git a/src/common/log.c b/src/common/log.c index 5f7151b..f679336 100644 --- a/src/common/log.c +++ b/src/common/log.c @@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ add_file_log(const log_severity_list_t *severity, const char *filename, int open_flags = O_WRONLY|O_CREAT; open_flags |= truncate_log ? O_TRUNC : O_APPEND; - fd = tor_open_cloexec(filename, open_flags, 0644); + fd = tor_open_cloexec(filename, open_flags, 0640); if (fd<0) return -1; if (tor_fd_seekend(fd)<0) { ```