Thank you for letting me know, I will look into this! I greatly appreciate the tip.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Alejandro Andreu contact@alejandroandr.eu wrote:

Hi,

For automating the setup please consider using `gibson`[1], an effort made by the folks at Emerald Onion to better manage a Tor relay through a set of shell scripts. It's still in development, but just as you do, they run everything in BSD boxes.

Cheers!

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On Jul 19, 2018, 09:34, Conrad Rockenhaus < conrad@rockenhaus.com> wrote:

Howdy,

So, anyway, I was previously more active, but I decided on a midlife career change and was on a training path to become a Physician Assistant. Then I was hit by a drunk driver. Now I had to drop out of the program for the next year at least, if at all, so I'm going back to working IT. That's the sob story.

I like BSD, primarily FreeBSD (please flame me about how my relays aren't secure later :P) and like promoting the use of it. I have excess capacity on dedicated servers that I personally pay for that are used to host portions of a very popular Wiki based Satire/Dark Humor website. Some of that capacity is already going to Tor. On the servers that have address space SWIPed to me, I would like to resell that capacity specifically to host BSD based Tor relays, exits, bridges, and hidden services. Right now I'm working on infrastructure and a website and trying to somewhat automate things.

The question I would like to ask, and honestly, I'm not trying to generate customers, I honestly believe that if a Linux user actually logs into a BSD box for the first time and sees the beauty and grace that the differences between BSD and Linux are that they would want to switch their own personal relay. I'm a firm believer of this. I know there's some hardcore Linux fans out there and that's fine, there's a legion of BSD fans too :).

To the point - would it be fair to network stability to offer a week long free trial to run a tor instance, well, that is if that's what the user hopefully runs? Would such a model even have an affect on increasing the number of BSD instances we have on Tor presently?

And again, per a suggestion in a previous email chain that I was involved in, I setup my ARIN and RIPE ids, and my providers have SWIPed the address spaces to me so any and all abuse complaints will be coming to me for the address spaces for now on.

Thanks,

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