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I have installed Tor using Homebrew and configured torrc for client and bridge relay usage. However I would like to be able to see stats similar to what is available in Vidalia network monitor and log viewer. I understand ARM should give me what I'm after but I am not sure how to run it. Also under /usr/local/Cellar/tor/... I can tail -f a number a files such as state and bridge-stats but this does not seem give me the rich detail that was available with Vidalia.

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Edit (after realizing Homebrew is a osx only pakage manager):

on OS X:

To install arm:
Simply install arm using brew install arm.

To just view the logs:
var/log dir doesn't exist by defult. You need ot make it under /usr/local/Cellar/tor/{Tor version}/ and perhaps turn notices or debug logs on in your torrc. And Tor will print logs on /usr/local/Cellar/tor/{Tor version}/var/log/notices.log or /usr/local/Cellar/tor/{Tor version}/var/log/debug.log.

or point torrc to elsewhere to print the logs.

on linux:

I don't think if that's a good idea (or recommended) to install Tor using non-official package managers.

To install Tor:
See installation guide for Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/CentOS to learn how to add official Tor package repository to your linux machine to get the latest versions first hand.

To install and run arm:
Once you added Tor repositories and installed latest version of Tor, you can install arm using sudo apt-get install tor-arm (if on Debian/Ubuntu) or sudo yum install tor-arm (if Fedora/CentOS) and then run arm with the same UID running/controlling Tor.

For example, run sudo -u debian-tor arm if installed from official repo on a Debian/Ubuntu machine.

To just see the logs:
You can control where Tor does write it's logs in your torrc. It must be /var/log/tor/log if you didn't change anything.

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    duh, I just realized Homebrew is a Mac OS X only package manager.
    – mrphs
    Commented Sep 29, 2013 at 9:01
  • Yes and documented on Tor docs @ torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-osx.html.en However you pointed me in the right direction and after installing 'brew install arm' arm is now working which was my best case scenario. So answer accepted.
    – Midio
    Commented Sep 29, 2013 at 9:37
  • Could this answer be edited to reflect that 'brew install arm' will do it, since it's been accepted but is for Linux, not OS X?
    – Gordon Morehouse
    Commented Sep 29, 2013 at 17:32

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