[tor-relays] More than one instance with Debian Jessie

[Peter Palfrader]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2016, pa011 wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 03.07.2016 um 13:31 schrieb Peter Palfrader:
> > On Sun, 03 Jul 2016, pa011 wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> Am 03.07.2016 um 13:03 schrieb Peter Palfrader:
> >>> Let me read this for you.
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 03 Jul 2016, pa011 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Jul 3 12:09:27 tor[4532]: Jul 03 12:09:27.590 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443
> >>>> Jul 3 12:09:27 tor[4532]: Jul 03 12:09:27.590 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Address already in use. Is Tor already running?
> >>>> Jul 3 12:09:27 tor[4532]: Jul 03 12:09:27.590 [notice] Opening Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:80
> >>>> Jul 3 12:09:27 tor[4532]: Jul 03 12:09:27.590 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:80: Address already in use. Is Tor already running?
> >>>
> >>> HTH.
> > 
> > [Hope that helps]
> > 
> >> Would be very kind if you could explain a bit what I should do and why
> >> if you got some spare time.
> > 
> > It appears you have told your (second?) tor to listen on port 443.  You
> > have something else on your machine already using Port 443.
> > 
> > (It's a bit hard to read, since you line wrapped the log output.)
> > 
> Sorry for the wrapping - I hopefully convinced Thunderbird not to do it
> any more :-)
> 
> Yes, the first tor instance is using the ports 80 and 443 - I thought
> they could be shared between the instances. So what setting should I use
> then in the second torrc please?

Pick different ports.  Any that are free and that you like.

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