Newbie needs help [SOLVED]

[Bob Williams]

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