[tor-talk] Arm

[Damian Johnson]

Gotcha. What's probably happening here is that you're using the debian
tor instance which has its data directory owned by debian-tor. Lets
make this simple by not using /etc/tor/torrc. Make a torrc in your
home directory like the FAQ link I gave you and run 'tor -f
~/path/to/that/torrc'.



On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 12:22 PM, James <james at insiberia.net> wrote:
> 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.
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