Newbie needs help

[DM]

Look at the line in the config file containing the Socks listener  
entry and see if you added an extra character after the port number.

On Jul 24, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Bob Williams wrote:

> 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