Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bob Williams<secur...@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)