OSX: Vidilia (Does not recognize that tor is already running)

[Przemyslaw Orzechowski]

if you configure tor on win2k to run as a service there is the same problem
with vidalia
2006/6/17, numE <numE at onionizer.de>:
>
> Hi,
>
> phobos at rootme.org schrieb:
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 03:55:45PM +0200, numE at onionizer.de wrote 0.5Kbytes in 20 lines about:
> > : i just updated to the latest version of tor including vidilia.
> > : unfortunately i cant use vidilia, as vidilia does not recognize that
> tor
> > : is already running (/Library/StartupItems/Tor/tor <- put there by the
> > : older versions).
> >
> > Vidalia seems to assume that the local user is running
> > Tor and that Vidalia has full control of Tor.  This works well on
> > Windows, but not unix-like OSes (osx/linux/unix) where Tor is installed
> > as a separate user and provides ControlPort access via a tcp port.
> >
> > I'm open to changing the installer, but I'd prefer Vidalia to check for
> > existing port 9051 (or whatever port is configured) first.
>
> Nah - would be a better solution if Vidalia would check for a running
> tor version.
>
> > Perhaps the Vidalia people will respond.
> Hopefully - or should we open a ticket somewhere?
>
> b.t.w rootme.org is a very nice domain.
> would be perfect for a open jabber server ;)
>
> greetings.
>
> --numE
>
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>
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