When running Tor nodes, I think of my uptimes more as a vanity metric, and
don't worry much about restarting machines after updates. If there's a
value to running a more "high availability" node, please somebody let me
know.
--
Pablo Brasero
On 14 March 2015 at 12:12, Alexander Dietrich
alexander@dietrich.cx wrote:
> On Ubuntu, "service tor reload" should also work.
>
> There's not a lot you can do about updates that require a restart (other
> than to restart).
>
> You can automate the restarts though, install "unattended-upgrades" and
> "update-notifier-common", then check out the config files in
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
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> On 2015-03-14 10:47, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
>
>> On March 14, 2015 7:46:16 AM Larry Brandt
lbrandt@cni.net wrote:
>>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> Sorry if this question has been answered dozens of times before. I have
>>> a middle relay that has been operational since last summer. I wish to
>>> make some alterations to my torrc file and make these changes
>>> operationally active without stopping and restarting tor. Is this
>>> possible? I experience a bit of down time whenever I up bandwidth,
>>> change contact info, etc. I'm also disapointed when ubuntu sends
>>> updates that require a server restart. What is the best method to
>>> handle this on a stand-alone server?
>>>
>>
>> You can use the -reload option after changing your torrc. The daemon
>> keeps running but reloads the config file.
>>
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>>
>> Sebastian Urbach
>>
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