Hi,
Nusenu wrote (16 Mar 2015 14:09:13 GMT) :
many relay operators run multiple tor instances to overcome certain limitations. Currently the official deb packages do not come with an easy configurable way to run multiple tor instances.
Just for the record, we've discussed this a few months ago with weasel, and the plan was to use a systemd unit template, that allows to support this feature in a nice and elegant way:
* introductory blog post about it: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/instances.html * http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html (look for "unit template")
I've no opinion regarding adding such support to the SysV initscript, except I'm not personally interested in working on it myself (contrary to the systemd-based solution).
Cheers, -- intrigeri