[tor-relays] restarting tor service after AccountingMax has been reached

[teor]

> On 21 Dec 2017, at 08:10, Fabian A. Santiago <fsantiago at garbage-juice.com> wrote:
> 
> December 20, 2017 3:32 PM, "teor" <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> On 21 Dec 2017, at 03:07, Fabian A. Santiago <fsantiago at garbage-juice.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm noticing that if i attempt to restart tor AFTER AccountingMax has been reached (meaning it's
>>> currently hibernating), tor itself fails to start.
>> 
>> What do you mean by "fails to start"?
>> What are the log messages?
>> 
>>> if i increase AccountingMax in torrc, then it restarts just fine.
>>> 
>>> normal?
>> 
>> It's hard to say, without any log messages.
> 
> Teor,
> 
> the logs look normal. maybe I've misinterpreted not opening the listening ports as not starting. I didn't check the actual systemd service status (silly me, I know). it's running now so next time I encounter this, I'll double check.

It is normal for Tor to close its listening ports when hibernating.
It is normal for hibernation to persist across a restart.

If you check the logs, it probably says something about this on startup,
and when it starts hibernating.

(When Tor doesn't have the right permissions to re-open these ports, the
process will exit when it resumes from hibernation. That's a config issue,
not a bug.)

> I also noticed in journalctl that it (Tor) wanted me to add 'ExitRelay 1' in my torrc to disable the exit relay warning and for future config requirements (it said). so i did that as well. all seems well as of now.

T

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