[tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia?

[J.C.]

Running Xubuntu 13.04. Do you mean a .deb package for relay operators 
is/will be available somewhere? I haven't come across one, but then i 
haven't been looking since the last time i had trouble with Tor. My 
relay is "namelesshero".


On 23.09.2013 12:58, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:54:34PM +0300, J.C. wrote:
>> Are all future versions of Tor Browser Bundle going to have Vidalia
>> permanently stripped?
> Very likely yes. And replaced with Tor Launcher.
>
>> I'm running a stable relay on Linux with the
>> TBB (and thus, Vidalia) instead of installing the Tor packages, and
>> i quite like it this way.
> Which Linux? If Debian or Ubuntu, you'll probably be much happier using
> the deb.
>
> The deb starts at boot, and runs the Tor process as a separate
> user. Another huge feature of the deb is that it raises your "ulimit -n"
> (the number of sockets a process is allowed to have open) automatically.
> Unless it's tiny, a relay run from inside Vidalia is going to run into
> that problem pretty quickly.
>
>>   I could try again but i'm
>> a huge fan of the "if it's not broken, don't touch it" approach, and
>> my relay works fantastic right now.
> Which one is it? We can check its statistics to see if that's actually
> true. :)
>
> Thanks,
> --Roger
>
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