Debian Install Broken

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:37PM -0500, Phreakx07 wrote:
> As of version 0.0.9.1-0.woody.1, the Debian install has been broken
> for me. I've even tried to reinstall Debian, but I keep getting the
> same error while executing tor. The error is as follows:
> 
> Phreakx07:/home/phreakx07# tor

I'm not a Debian person, but I'll take a stab at this.

First, it may already be running. Try "ps auxw|grep tor" to find out.

In any case, that's not how you're supposed to be running it. The Debian
Tor package creates a separate user for Tor called debian-tor. The deb has
a script for starting Tor like every other daemon. You should be using it.

Try something like "/etc/rc.d/tor start"

--Roger