On Friday 24 July 2009 12:47:41 Christian Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob > > Williams<[email protected]> 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
