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

anonym anonym at lavabit.com
Mon Dec 31 18:34:41 UTC 2007


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On 31/12/07 12:40, Ben Stover wrote:
> Can I start Tor with a second, individual "torrrc" configuration file?

tor -f <torrc> [args]

So, if we assume you have an alternative torrc in /etc/tor/torrc.alt
simply invoke tor by calling:

tor -f /etc/tor/torrc.alt

> 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.
> 
> Is this possible ?
> Or is there a work around for this ?
> 
> Ben

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