Updating relay using killall -hup command
Hello, So recently I upgraded from tor 0.3.3.8 to tor 0.3.3.9, and used the killall -HUP command to restart the relay. However this did nothing, the relay consensus says I am still running tor 0.3.3.8 days later. Is there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely restarting the relay? The OS is macos High Sierra 10.13.6. Thank you.
On 7/18/18 14:58, Keifer Bly wrote:
Hello,
So recently I upgraded from tor 0.3.3.8 to tor 0.3.3.9, and used the killall -HUP command to restart the relay. However this did nothing, the relay consensus says I am still running tor 0.3.3.8 days later. Is there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely restarting the relay?
The OS is macos High Sierra 10.13.6.
No. You have to restart the process, thus the relay. (Can you update any other program without restarting it entirely? [If you say the Linux kernel, does your distro actually do it?]) Don't fret about uptime or flags. Updates -- both for Tor and your OS -- are more important. Thanks for running a relay. Matt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:01:36 +0000, Matt Traudt wrote: ...
No. You have to restart the process, thus the relay. (Can you update any other program without restarting it entirely?
Wasn't exactly a feature but under SunOS/Solaris when you ran a program from an NFS mount, and recompiled it, the compiler would write into the existing file, and that would change the actual code mapping the program ran on (in its process). Needless to say, in most cases of nontrivial changes this just lead to the program crashing. - Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
You pretty much need language support to make that work. Erlang has had in-process upgrade capability for ages. I'm not aware of another language which does it. Functional languages have an advantage since the top-level loop is typically a function calling itself. --mkb
On Jul 19, 2018, at 12:00 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:01:36 +0000, Matt Traudt wrote: ...
No. You have to restart the process, thus the relay. (Can you update any other program without restarting it entirely?
Wasn't exactly a feature but under SunOS/Solaris when you ran a program from an NFS mount, and recompiled it, the compiler would write into the existing file, and that would change the actual code mapping the program ran on (in its process).
Needless to say, in most cases of nontrivial changes this just lead to the program crashing.
- Andreas
-- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Keifer Bly:
Is there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely restarting the relay?
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