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Re: Newbie needs help

Look at the line in the config file containing the Socks listener entry and see if you added an extra character after the port number. 

On Jul 24, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Bob Williams wrote:


On Friday 24 July 2009 12:47:41 Christian Fromme wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob

Williams<security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Friday 24 July 2009 12:37:50 Christian Fromme wrote:
Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile? 
If not, you seem to have changed some configuration settings in the
meantime, breaking it.


Thanks. How do I restart Tor? I originally started it with

~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc

but when I rerun that command, I get

~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
Jul 24 12:41:40.393 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.35. This is experimental
software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux
x86_64)
Jul 24 12:41:40.393 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.4.5- stable 
using method epoll. Good.
Jul 24 12:41:40.393 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 
Jul 24 12:41:40.393 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address
already in use. Is Tor already running?
Jul 24 12:41:40.393 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to 
bind one of the listener ports.
Jul 24 12:41:40.393 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

How do stop and restart tor?


The way you use, you restart it by:

~> killall tor
~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc


Of course! Thank you. Unfortunately, I get the same result

12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> killall tor
12:53 barrowhillfarm:~> tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
Jul 24 12:54:15.469 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.35. This is experimental software. Do 
not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64)
Jul 24 12:54:15.470 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.4.5- stable using 
method epoll. Good.
Jul 24 12:54:15.470 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 24 12:54:15.470 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already 
in use. Is Tor already running?
Jul 24 12:54:15.470 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one 
of the listener ports.
Jul 24 12:54:15.470 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
12:54 barrowhillfarm:~>
I know there is nothing else trying to use port 9050 as /etc/ services says so: 

#               9027-9079   Unassigned

What next?
--
Bob