On Friday 24 July 2009 13:25:55 Christian Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bob > > Williams<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 24 July 2009 13:06:55 Christian Fromme wrote: > >> Next time you want to kill Tor, check out its process id (`pidof tor` > >> or `ps ax | grep tor | grep -v grep`) and kill that explicitly via > >> `kill <pid>`. Make sure you're the same user that started Tor when you > >> kill it. Check if its still running afterwards (`ps ax | grep tor | > >> grep -v grep`). > > > > Actually, it looks as if the tor process is indestructible :( Neither > > root nor user bob (that's who started it) can kill it. > > Tried kill -9 <pid>? > Good. That worked. Now when I try to restart it, it says I should start it as root
Jul 24 13:37:23.052 [warn] Error setting groups to gid 112: "Operation not permitted". If you set the "User" option, you must start Tor as root. Jul 24 13:37:23.052 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Problem with User value. See logs for details. Jul 24 13:37:23.052 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. /usr/bin/torctl start: tor could not be started startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/torctl: 3 I don't remember setting a "User" option, but tor was installed from a package obtained from my distro's repositories, so it may have occurred automatically. Is it OK to run it as root? -- Bob
