Need help trying to use tor via systemctl but it not working

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sudo systemctl status tor.service
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of tor.service changed on disk. Run ‘systemctl daemon-reload’ to reload units.
× tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-01-11 20:34:34 PKT; 27min ago
Duration: 85ms
Invocation: 0acd867f7d494739b04a74a389082bf6
Main PID: 24237 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mem peak: 2.7M
CPU: 39ms

Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.747 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.747 [notice] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.747 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.747 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already in use. Is Tor already running?
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.747 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.748 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali tor[24239]: Jan 11 20:34:34.748 [err] Reading config failed–see warnings above.
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali systemd[1]: tor.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali systemd[1]: tor.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Jan 11 20:34:34 kali systemd[1]: Failed to start tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).

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Your tor daemon can’t bind to port 9050 because it is already in use. Either you already have a tor instance running or another program is using this port. You can check this with the command ss -lntp. Either stop the program blocking port 9050 or change the SocksPort in your torrc.

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LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:*
its runing on this after ss -lntp

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The current user may not have permission to get some information about the process listening on 127.0.0.1:9050 , please try sudo ss -lntp.