<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br>On 22 Apr 2018, at 08:35, Keifer Bly <<a href="mailto:keifer.bly@gmail.com">keifer.bly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering, could you please explain exactly what “Consensus Weight” is? I had had a good uptime, about five days, then my darn computer that I run my relay off of froze for about 40 minutes this morning and I had no choice but to reboot the tor software, setting my current uptime back to 0 days. However, it has a consensus weight of 523, is this a good rating? Does this have an effect on things such as what flags a relay has (mine currently being Fast, V2Dir, Running, and Valid)?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The relay in question can be found here: <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30</a></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here is the definition of consensus weight:</span></div><div><a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/glossary.html#consensus-weight" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://metrics.torproject.org/glossary.html#consensus-weight</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you still have more questions, search the archives of</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a> for </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the words "bandwidth" and "consensus weight":</span></div><div><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please feel free to ask more specific questions after reading these things.</span></div></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I know the stable flag (which I have had on and off since starting my relay, don’t currently have it but relay seems to receive traffic nonetheless) depends on uptime history, not exact current uptime, but am curious, is there an easy to check my current uptime history?</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As someone said in response to your last email, no, there is not.</div><div><br></div><div>But you can see your consensus weight and flags history as graphs on:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody" size="3">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30</font></a></p></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can get an idea of your uptime from these graphs.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>But please ignore the 1 month bandwidth graph, it might be empty,</div><div>and it will go away soon. The longer graphs will stay.</div><div>(Relays recently stopped reporting bandwidth in detail for security</div><div>reasons. Search the list archives for details.)</div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Also, I thought I’d share an applescript I wrote to automatically update the tor relay software and homebrew one minute after midnight every day.</p></div></blockquote><br><style><!--
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--></style><div>It looks like it would work on macOS.</div><div><br></div><div>Most people use cron for scheduled tasks, because it works on Linux and BSDs as well.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>