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

[Fabian A. Santiago]

December 20, 2017 4:44 PM, "teor" <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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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That makes me sad, :-( ;-)

Many thanks.

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Thanks,

Fabian S.

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