[tor-commits] [stem/master] Client usage tutorial can be disrupted if tor is running

[atagar at torproject.org]

commit 3d2f54327d64937016542381816a3529dcbfaa84
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 17 10:27:57 2013 -0700

    Client usage tutorial can be disrupted if tor is running
    
    If you already have a tor instance running then the 'To Russia With Love'
    tutorial will fail to bootstrap due to a conflicting data directory. Thanks to
    Sreenatha for reporting this!
---
 docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst b/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst
index 7fb7c66..86a9349 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ In the following example we're using stem to `start Tor <../api/process.html>`_,
       return "Unable to reach %s (%s)" % (url, exc)
 
   # Start an instance of tor configured to only exit through Russia. This prints
-  # tor's bootstrap information as it starts.
+  # tor's bootstrap information as it starts. Note that this likely will not
+  # work if you have another tor instance running.
 
   def print_bootstrap_lines(line):
     if "Bootstrapped " in line: