How to request new TOR identity in terminal

Question

I am trying to connect to TOR via telnet in my terminal on my mac osx and to request new identity, but it is not working, I always get this error message:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

I am using this telnet command for the connection:

telnet 127.0.0.1 9051

And idea why is this not working?

thx

Answer 1

The fastest and easiest way to get "new identity" is send HUP signal.

Tor daemon re-read configurations files and make "new identity".

I keep special bash script for this:

# cat /usr/local/bin/nym 
#!/bin/bash
pidof tor | xargs sudo kill -HUP

My sudoers file full of NOPASSWD:

# cat /etc/sudoers 
....
anonymous       ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
...

Try this.