how to make tor work in ubuntu 8.04

Sivan404 · 01-01-2009, 06:53 PM

I can not make tor work, I tried a few ways and it did not worked.

repo · 01-01-2009, 09:57 PM

What did you do?
What doesn't work?
Did you follow the quide on the website?
Do you just want to use tor or also be a exit node?
....

Sivan404 · 01-02-2009, 05:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

What did you do?
What doesn't work?
Did you follow the quide on the website?
Do you just want to use tor or also be a exit node?
....

I installed tor from synaptic and my IP is shown on line when I go to places like - http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index....dwidth&SO=Desc
I installed it from it's website and it is the same.
There is something that I am missing when I install Tor.

repo · 01-02-2009, 06:09 AM

If you want to use tor in firefox, you also need to install privoxy
http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

repo · 01-02-2009, 06:14 AM

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I installed tor from synaptic and my IP is shown on line when I go to places like - http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index....dwidth&SO=Desc

Does it say you are using tor?
Take a look at /var/log/tor/log

Sivan404 · 01-03-2009, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by repo

Does it say you are using tor?
Take a look at /var/log/tor/log

I got Tor and privoxy installed on the machine and torbutton on my FF.
Fire fox popped a window teling "Torbutton on Firefox 3 is known to leak your timezone and livemaks via tor." and asking if I want to continue.
I did continued to find that the link http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index....dwidth&SO=Desc tells me that I am not connected to Tor.
I could not found my way with configuration of Tor, it look too much of a Geek for me.
any simple way to make it work?

repo · 01-03-2009, 10:57 AM

You need to start tor
/etc/init.d/tor start.
look in /var/log/tor/log for errormessages
Do you use a firewall?

I would suggest to go to

http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

and do the installation step by step

Sivan404 · 01-04-2009, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

You need to start tor
/etc/init.d/tor start.
look in /var/log/tor/log for errormessages
Do you use a firewall?

I would suggest to go to

http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

and do the installation step by step

I use firestarter

repo · 01-04-2009, 05:03 AM

look in /var/log/tor/log for errormessages
disable firestater to see if it connects to build a circuit

Sivan404 · 01-06-2009, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

look in /var/log/tor/log for errormessages
disable firestater to see if it connects to build a circuit

I tried with no firewall and it did not work, the Firefox had more problems.

Reading some thing on Open Source and free software I found TORPARK

and it working with WINE.

Thanks