On Friday 24 July 2009 13:50:14 Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 07/24/2009 08:44 AM, Bob Williams wrote: > > Ah ha! A quick look around this openSUSE linux system reveals > > /etc/rc.d/tor and that accepts the 'stop' option. It tells me that 'tor > > apparently not running (no pid file)'. > > My advice is to start over with Tor, and not use the rpms that come with > opensuse repositories. > > You could stop/kill tor, uninstall the tor rpm you have now and remove > /etc/tor/. > > Download the opensuse rpm from https://www.torproject.org/download-unix. > Install, and then "sudo /etc/init.d/tor start" and everything should > work by default with Tor. > > If you have torbutton in firefox, click it to "Tor Enabled". Privoxy > should already be running and then you can test check.torproject.org to > see if you're using tor successfully.
Tor now re-installed and all working well. Now to investigate becoming a relay. Thanks for everyone's help. -- Bob
