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

[teor]

> On 21 Dec 2017, at 08:39, Fabian A. Santiago <fsantiago at garbage-juice.com> wrote:
> 
> December 20, 2017 4:32 PM, "teor" <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> so how i first noticed was when i couldn't browse to my dirport readme html page after a tor restart. are you saying when it normally hibernates, that page goes down too?

Yes.

When Tor hibernates, it doesn't send or receive any data.
That includes ORPort and DirPort requests.

T

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