reassign 654644 vidalia
thanks
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012, Joey Hess wrote:
> I am trying to use vidalia to run tor. I have stopped tor, and edited
> /etc/default/tor to avoid it running as a daemon.
> Vidalia fails to start it, and logs:
>
> Jan 04 15:49:27.068 [Warning] /var/run/tor is not owned by this user (joey,
> 1000) but by debian-tor (115). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
> Jan 04 15:49:27.069 [Warning] Before Tor can create a control socket in
> "/var/run/tor/control", the directory "/var/run/tor" needs to exist, and to
> be accessible only by the user account that is running Tor. (On some Unix
> systems, anybody who can list a socket can conect to it, so Tor is being
> careful.)
> Jan 04 15:49:27.069 [Notice] Closing partially-constructed listener Socks
> listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
> Jan 04 15:49:27.070 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind
> one of the listener ports.
> Jan 04 15:49:27.070 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
>
When tor isn't started as debian-tor (or root), then tor does not
default to use /var/run/tor/control. Setting that config option is
vidalia's doing, hence reassigning.
Cheers,
weasel
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