Newbie needs help

[Christian Fromme]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob
Williams<security at barrowhillfarm.org.uk> 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

Best,
Christian (kaner)