On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:26:17 +0100, mistral.relay@posteo.net 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.
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