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

Louie Cardone-Noott lcn at fastmail.net
Fri Jan 22 09:42:22 UTC 2016


Try restart instead of reload.

It looks like you've installed from a package, which allows the daemon
to bind to any port then "drop privileges" (according to the FAQ).

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#PackagedTor


On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, at 12:26 AM, AJ NOURI wrote:
> *sudo service tor reload*
>
>> * Reloading tor daemon configuration...      [fail]
>
>
> */var/log/tor/log*
>>
>> Jan 08 08:01:25.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.7.6 (git-605ae665009853bd)
>> opening new log file.    Jan 08 10:19:40.000 [notice] Heartbeat:
>> Tor's uptime is 3 days 0:00 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent
>> 1.17 MB and received 28.04 MB.    Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [notice]
>> Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and resetting internal
>> state.    Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-
>> torrc".    Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [notice] Read configuration file
>> "/etc/tor/torrc".    Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [notice] Based on detected
>> system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 5988 MB. You can override
>> this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand.    Jan 08 12:31:58.000
>> [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443    Jan 08 12:31:58.000
>> [warn] **Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission denied**    Jan 08
>> 12:31:58.000 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind
>> one of the listener ports.    Jan 08 12:31:58.000 [err] Reading
>> config failed--see warnings above. For usage, try -h.    Jan 08
>> 12:31:58.000 [warn] Restart failed (config error?). Exiting.
>
>
>
> *Configuration /etc/tor/torrc*
>
>> ORPort 443    Nickname ididnteditheconfig    RelayBandwidthRate 1000
>> KBytes  # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)
>> RelayBandwidthBurst 2000 KBytes # But allow bursts up to 200KB
>> (1600Kb)    ExitPolicy reject *:*
>
>
> Opened 443 port on the Internet box:
> http://i.stack.imgur.com/oVwzO.jpg Inline image 1
>
> Port 443 locally opened: *ss -tunlp | grep 443*
>
>> tcp    LISTEN     0      128                    *:443
>> *:*    tcp    LISTEN     0      128                   :::443
>> :::*
>
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