[tor-relays] Problems with Debian package and low ports

Roman Mamedov rm at romanrm.ru
Wed Feb 13 17:13:11 UTC 2013


On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:07:53 +0100
Nils Vogels <bacardicoke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tor has already changed to a non-privileged user, but you are trying to
> bind on ports that only root is allowed to bind on.
> 
> Two solutions:
> 
> 1) Run tor as root (really, a bad idea)
> 2) Bind to other ports than 80 and 443. Since you are resuming, you are
> unlikely to be a stable relay/exit/bridge anyway, so you can basically
> choose any port you want and just use it for your own traffic only.

3) or just do not Hibernate. Use RelayBandwidthRate to limit your bandwidth
utilization instead.

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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