[tor-talk] "/var/run/tor does not exist", Tor won't start

Julian Yon julian at yon.org.uk
Fri Sep 30 19:10:56 UTC 2011


On 30/09/11 20:01, bottemann wrote:
> Vidalia (v0.2.14) reports Tor (v0.2.2.33) can't
> create a socket because "/var/run/tor" does
> not exist.

Assuming you just need to create the directory, then try:

$ sudo mkdir -p /var/run/tor
$ sudo chown debian-tor:debian-tor /var/run/tor
$ sudo chmod 02750 /var/run/tor


Julian

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