[tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

[David Stainton]

I hope my Tor Ansible role will be useful to relay operators:
https://github.com/david415/ansible-tor

You can use it to write many different types of playbooks for
installing/configuring tor on one or more servers. In the github
readme I show several example playbooks to configure tor in various
ways including multiple tor instances on the same machine, obfsproxy
bridges and configuring tor hidden services.

In the case of multiple tor processes per machine I am not using any
init script... but instead set reasonable defaults in each torrc for
User, PidFile, Log and DataDirectory.

One of the reasons that Ansible is great is that the only requirement
for Ansible to run is ssh access (authorized_keys) with sudo nopasswd.
Actually that's not true because some Ansible modules need certain
python modules... but that's easy to deal with.
Ansible tasks are meant to be idempotent operations. By default
ansible will execute each task in parallel on a group of hosts... and
will not proceed with the next task until all hosts in the group are
in the same state.


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Alexander Dietrich
<alexander at dietrich.cx> wrote:
> AFAIK, arm connects to the control port of a single instance at a time. You
> would have to configure different ControlPort settings for each instance and
> connect to them one by one.
>
> I posted this multi-instance script a short while ago:
> https://gist.github.com/7adietri/9122199
>
> It's very close to the official init script (for easier maintenance), so you
> can just invoke "service tor status" and get a line for each instance.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
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>
> On 2014-04-18 11:19, I wrote:
>>
>> Jesse,
>>
>> What's the test that there are two instances running?
>> top? Are they visible in arm?
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
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