[tor-relays] Tor RPM packages now come with multi-instance support (since v0.2.6.4-rc) -- please test them

David Stainton dstainton415 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 21:59:50 UTC 2015


Excellent! Do you plan to do this for the debian package as well?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Nusenu <nusenu at openmailbox.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Tor RPM packages (starting with version 0.2.6.4-rc) now come with
> multi-instance support [1].
>
> This makes it easier for everyone running more than one tor instance
> on a system.
>
> A short mini how-to for relay ops that would like to use this:
>
> service tor stop
>
> 1) create the folder: /etc/tor/enabled
> 2) move all your *.torrc files in this folder (they have to have the
> .torrc file suffix)
> 3) create the file '/etc/default/tor' and place the following line in it:
> MULTI_INSTANCE="yes"
> 4) make sure you have tor RPM packages v0.2.6.4-rc or higher
>
> finally:
> service tor start
> will start one tor instance per exiting /etc/tor/*.torrc file (each
> file is checked using --verify-config first).
>
> Note: /etc/tor/torrc will be ignored in multi-instance mode.
>
> Maybe we can add documentation to comments in /etc/default/tor..
>
> The init.d script supports "selective" commands:
> Lets say you only want to restart the instances that are defined in
> the following two torrc files:
> /etc/tor/enabled/tor22.torrc
> /etc/tor/enabled/tor443.torrc
>
> you can do that with:
> service tor restart tor22 tor443
>
>
> Please consider testing the new packages if you run already multiple
> instances today.
> If your instances do not start for unknown reasons please run 'tail -f
> /var/log/audit/audit.log' while staring them and file a bug (include
> the log lines and whether it works in SELinux permissive mode).
>
> Thanks to Ondrej for merging this!
>
> now lets hope for the debian packages [1] before 0.2.6.x is released,
> Nusenu
>
>
> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14996
> [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14995
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