Passing another,second,individual "torrc" on command line to Tor possible ?

Ben Wilhelm zorba-tor at pavlovian.net
Mon Dec 31 11:42:37 UTC 2007


"tor -f my_alternate_torrc_file"

There ya go. :)

-Ben

Ben Stover wrote:
> Can I start Tor with a second, individual "torrrc" configuration file?
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> In general I want to use the original torrc. But occasionally I want to use e.g. specific exit nodes.
> So I must use a modified torrc. Instead of always having to manually edit the one and only torrc
> I would appreciate to have a second torrc which I can pass to Tor as starting parameter on command line.
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> Is this possible ?
> Or is there a work around for this ?
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> Ben
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