[tor-relays] experiences with debian tor 0.2.8.6 package from deb.torproject.org

[Peter Palfrader]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2016, tor relay wrote:

> 
> > On August 5, 2016 at 1:24 PM Peter Palfrader <weasel at torproject.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 05 Aug 2016, tor relay wrote:
> > 
> > > Also: you can not start/stop/restart tor.service separately without leaving all other tor instances untouched.
> > 
> > tor.service is *not* the default service.  tor.service is the collection
> > of all service instances.
> 
> 
> Gosh, you are right there is tor at default.service, so you are actually already doing what is being done in RPMs and there is no need to move away /etc/tor/torrc at all :)
> (why didn't you mention that ;).

I said moving it away is *one* option.

The generator will then not cause tor.service to start the default
instance, so after a daemon-reload, systemd should not even attempt to
start the default instance.

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