Damian Johnson: > That's fine. It's just an example. Try this... > > % killall tor > % cat /etc/tor/torrc > % tor -f /etc/tor/torrc & > % telnet localhost <your controlport> > AUTHENTICATE "my_password" > > > Sorry to take so long to get back to you, I realized I needed my tor on for my email. Anyway, this gave me errors too. As shown below:
tor -f /etc/tor/torrc & [1] 31826 katnip@yarddog:~> Jul 23 14:52:36.979 [notice] Tor 0.3.0.9 (git-22b3bf094e327093) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2l-fips and Zlib 1.2.11. Jul 23 14:52:36.979 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Jul 23 14:52:36.980 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051 Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor cannot be read: Permission denied Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/var/lib/tor" Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. telnet localhost <your controlport> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' [1]+ Exit 1 tor -f /etc/tor/torrc katnip@yarddog:~> tor Jul 23 15:10:22.774 [notice] Tor 0.3.0.9 (git-22b3bf094e327093) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2l-fips and Zlib 1.2.11. Jul 23 15:10:22.774 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Jul 23 15:10:22.774 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". Jul 23 15:10:22.778 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 Jul 23 15:10:22.778 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051 Jul 23 15:10:22.779 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor cannot be read: Permission denied Jul 23 15:10:22.779 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/var/lib/tor" Jul 23 15:10:22.779 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
