[tor-talk] Arm

[James]

Damian Johnson:
> That's fine. It's just an example. Try this...
> 
> % killall tor
> % cat /etc/tor/torrc
> % tor -f /etc/tor/torrc &
> % telnet localhost <your controlport>
> AUTHENTICATE "my_password"
> 
> 
> 
Sorry to take so long to get back to you, I realized I needed my tor on
for my email. Anyway, this gave me errors too. As shown below:


tor -f /etc/tor/torrc &
[1] 31826
katnip at yarddog:~> Jul 23 14:52:36.979 [notice] Tor 0.3.0.9
(git-22b3bf094e327093) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable,
OpenSSL 1.0.2l-fips and Zlib 1.2.11.
Jul 23 14:52:36.979 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 23 14:52:36.980 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor cannot be read:
Permission denied
Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't
access/create private data directory "/var/lib/tor"
Jul 23 14:52:36.983 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
telnet localhost <your controlport>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
[1]+  Exit 1                  tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
katnip at yarddog:~> tor
Jul 23 15:10:22.774 [notice] Tor 0.3.0.9 (git-22b3bf094e327093) running
on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2l-fips and Zlib 1.2.11.
Jul 23 15:10:22.774 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong!
Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jul 23 15:10:22.774 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Jul 23 15:10:22.778 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jul 23 15:10:22.778 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Jul 23 15:10:22.779 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor cannot be read:
Permission denied
Jul 23 15:10:22.779 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't
access/create private data directory "/var/lib/tor"
Jul 23 15:10:22.779 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.