<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>You talked about using homebrew to automatically update tor.</div><div>How do you launch tor?</div><div>Des homebrew restart tor when it is updated?</div><div><br></div><div>Because tor doesn't update to the new version until you restart it.</div><div><br></div><div>On 22 Apr 2018, at 11:06, Keifer Bly <<a href="mailto:keifer.bly@gmail.com">keifer.bly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Thank you. And I’m not asking for a for sure response, just generally what you think, would an about 40 minute downtime (what I had this morning) majorly effect my time between failures after about 106 hours of solid uptime? </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If your relay fails after 106 hours, the average time before failure will</div><div>get closer to 106 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to know how this might affect the stable flag, you can</div><div>find the thresholds on consensus-health, and check if they are more</div><div>or less than 106 hours. Read people's previous responses to your</div><div>emails for details.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Sorry to keep emailing but trying to keep my relay as useful as possible to the network.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The tor network has significant redundancy.<div>There are thousands of relays.<br><div>Clients adapt to changes and just use another relay.<br><div><br><style><!--
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--></style><div>You seem really worried, so I'm going to repeat some advice from</div><div>an earlier email:</div><div><br></div><div>Do your best to run a relay.</div><div>Keep it updated.</div><div>Stop worrying.</div><div>Just relax.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></div></div></div></body></html>