[tor-talk] log heartbeat update on demand?

[Nick Mathewson]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
> At intervals Tor posts some status updates to the system log file:
>
>         Aug 15 19:56:40 relay4 Tor[26018]: Heartbeat: Tor's
>         uptime is 6:00 hours, with 10 circuits open. I've sent
>         2.11 MB and received 7.18 MB.
>
> I see that Tor takes different actions upon catching various signals
> (HUP, USR1, USR2, etc).  But none of these signals force a short,
> concise status report like is given in the heartbeat.  How can this
> heartbeat update be invoked on demand?

There isn't a mechanism to do that.  But I agree it would be cool to
have one.  I've opened a ticket as
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9503

(You can make the heartbeat message more frequent by altering the
HeartbeatPeriod configuration value, but that's not quite what you
asked for.)

cheers,
-- 
Nick