Newbie needs help

[Bob Williams]

On Friday 24 July 2009 12:47:41 Christian Fromme wrote:
> 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
>
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