[tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

[Matt Traudt]

On 7/18/18 14:58, Keifer Bly wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> So recently I upgraded from tor 0.3.3.8 to tor 0.3.3.9, and used the
> killall -HUP command to restart the relay. However this did nothing, 
> the relay consensus says I am still running tor 0.3.3.8 days later. Is
> there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely
> restarting the relay?
> 
> The OS is macos High Sierra 10.13.6.
> 

No. You have to restart the process, thus the relay. (Can you update any
other program without restarting it entirely? [If you say the Linux
kernel, does your distro actually do it?])

Don't fret about uptime or flags. Updates -- both for Tor and your OS --
are more important.

Thanks for running a relay.

Matt