Re: [tor-relays] Relay configuration issue "Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission denied"

22 Jan 2016

      On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 01:26:05AM +0100, AJ NOURI wrote:
...
*sudo service tor reload*
* Reloading tor daemon configuration...      [fail]
...
Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading
config and resetting internal state.
    Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [warn] **Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443:
Permission denied**
See
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/918
for an explanation of why this happens.

The easy fix is to pick an ORPort above 1024.

--Roger

Re: [tor-relays] Relay configuration issue "Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission denied"

Roger Dingledine