Re: Newbie needs help

[Bob Williams <security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
-- 
Bob