On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:26:17 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hello all, a newbie question: > > assuming that I want to shut down and restart a running tor-relay > (for whatever reason; e.g. a linux reboot is required) - is it fine > to just shut down the relay or is there a nicer, more tor-user > friendly way so circuits don't drop for them unexpectedly? > > I was thinking about a command to tell tor to complete whatever is > ongoing, but to not accept any new circuits or other requests and > then stop working. Would setting the BandwidthBurst to 0 followed by > a tor-reload do this over some time (checking with e.g. arm what is > still ongoing)?
If you use a package, it should come with an init script then you can use it to reload it. Otherwise, just send Tor a SIGINT then it will stop accepting new connections and try to stop existing circuit and finally stop itself. > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
