On Monday, September 21, 2020 5:58 AM, Kencf0618@riseup.net wrote:
Whatever the torrc, with "Tor" I get
Sep 18 08:02:12.538 [notice] Tor 0.3.2.10 (git-0edaa32732ec8930) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3. Sep 18 08:02:12.538 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Sep 18 08:02:12.538 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 8192 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand. Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled. Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443 Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission denied Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports. Sep 18 08:02:12.542 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
whereas with "sudo Tor" (yeah, yeah, I know, I know -"bad form") I get
ep 18 08:04:12.236 [notice] Tor 0.3.2.10 (git-0edaa32732ec8930) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3. Sep 18 08:04:12.236 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Sep 18 08:04:12.237 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". Sep 18 08:04:12.240 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 8192 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand. Sep 18 08:04:12.240 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled. Sep 18 08:04:12.240 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443 Sep 18 08:04:12.241 [warn] /home/kenneth/.tor is not owned by this user (root, 0) but by kenneth (1000). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user? Sep 18 08:04:12.241 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/home/kenneth/.tor" Sep 18 08:04:12.241 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
What is happening?
Please check if it works when you select a ORPort above 1023. It is a common problem with Tor on Linux: it cannot open ports below 1024 when running as a non-root service.