"permission denied" on wake-up

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Tue Jul 14 17:25:59 UTC 2009


On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:54:32 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:12:43PM +0100, David McKeegan wrote:
>> Tor newbie here.
>> 
>> I set my relay (running on an Ubuntu VPS) to hibernate after 2GB and  
>> everything seemed to be working fine until the time came for it to  
>> wake up for the first time. My log showed this repeated error:
>> 
>> Jul 14 14:11:56.045 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443
>> Jul 14 14:11:56.045 [warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:443: Permission  
>> denied
>> 
>> A tor restart seemed to fix the problem, with logs showing
> 
> Right. The problem is that you can't configure hibernation plus pick a
> low-numbered port currently.
> 
> See https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=918
> for details -- in Tor 0.2.1.x, we've added a warning during boot that
> you've chosen two incompatible config choices. For later versions of
> Tor, we hope to have a smarter answer.

Thank you, Roger. Should I edit the TorFAQ, so that others don't make 
the same mistake as me?

> 
>> Don't want to have to manually restart every day. Any idea what the  
>> problem might be and how to fix it?
> 
> For now, the workaround is to either not configure hibernation, or to
> pick a port above 1023.

I need to hibernate as my bandwidth has a monthly cap. Any port 
recommendations, or should I just go with the default 9001?

Thanks again,

Dave



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