[tor-relays] Who am I?

[William Kane]

bind*, sorry for the typo.

William

2020-09-21 8:48 GMT, William Kane <ttallink at googlemail.com>:
> It's obvious whats happening, in the first example Tor can't bind to the
> reserved port range, running it as root it can bin of course, but the data
> directory is owned by the package-supplied tor user so it refuses to start.
>
> Please read more carefully next time, this is pretty basic linux sysadmin
> knowledge and the logs tell you exactly whats wrong - now it is up to you
> to find a solution by using the search engine of your choice.
>
> Hint: running it as root is the worst solution to this problem..
>
> William
>
> <Kencf0618 at riseup.net> schrieb am Mo., 21. Sep. 2020, 05:58:
>
>> 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?
>>
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