Bug 706430

Summary:	net-vpn/tor should use CacheDirectory by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Forza <forza>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bertrand, jstein, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Forza 2020-01-26 11:38:43 UTC

tor uses /var/lib/tor to store both persistent data such as fingerprint and stats, as well as cache-type data. (diff-cache, cache-* files).

It would be appropriate to move the cache data to /var/cache instead.

#/etc/tor/torrc:
DataDirectory /var/lib/tor/data
CacheDirectory /var/cache/tor


There is also a tor bug tracker issue, that lead to the CacheDirectory config option:  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22703
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-November/013543.html



Reproducible: Always