Re: Newbie needs help

[Bob Williams <security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 July 2009 13:03:57 DM wrote:
> 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.
>
This is what I have, unaltered from the original sample file:

## Replace this with "SocksPort 0" if you plan to run Tor only as a
## server, and not make any local application connections yourself.
SocksPort 9050 # what port to open for local application connections
SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1 # accept connections only from localhost
#SocksListenAddress 192.168.0.1:9100 # listen on this IP:port also


> 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

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Bob