Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread Geoff Down
Hi, two questions: I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was running. I actually moved it to a different directory. The log data kept being written to that file. How? Secondly, does sending a USR2 signal to Tor 0.2.0.31 (r16744) switch on debug level logging as

Re: Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread zmj
for the first question: maybe you should restart Tor On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Geoff Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, two questions: I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was running. I actually moved it to a different directory. The log data kept

Re: Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread Geoff Down
Oh yes, restarting does break the link, I just wondered how the link persisted after a name change. Perhaps this is a normal feature of OSX, I'm no expert. On 17 Nov 2008, at 19:06, zmj wrote: for the first question: maybe you should restart Tor On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Geoff Down

Re: Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread dr . _no
Hi, I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was running. I actually moved it to a different directory. The log data kept being written to that file. How? unixoid OSes use file pointers which remain even when you do rm or unlink. So mv does not change writing to

Re: Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:54:49PM +, Geoff Down wrote: Hi, two questions: I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was running. I actually moved it to a different directory. The log data kept being written to that file. How? Welcome to Unix. :) A file on

Re: Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread Seth David Schoen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was running. I actually moved it to a different directory. The log data kept being written to that file. How? unixoid OSes use file pointers which remain even when you do rm or unlink.

Re: Tor cleverness?

2008-11-17 Thread Geoff Down
Thank you very much for the comprehensive replies. GD On 17 Nov 2008, at 20:05, Seth David Schoen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I renamed (with 'mv') the file I was sending Tor logs to whilst Tor was running. I actually moved it to a different directory. The log data kept being