[tor-relays] Tor not releasing port on shutdown?

[Geoff Down]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:58 +0200, "tagnaq" <tagnaq at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 09:06 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Geoff Down wrote:
> > 
> >> the most recent times I have tried to restart Tor after a 'killall
> >> -INT' I have been presented with the following error:
> >> "[warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:9001: Address already in use. Is Tor
> >> already running?"
> >> I'm not sure if this has started since I changed version, I'm on
> >> Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha (git-e5e38e55b33b2cc0)  OSX 10.3.9 .
> >> Anyone else see this? How do I release that port?
> >> Command 'lsof -i' returns no results, so I don't see Tor is really using
> >> it still - no sign of Tor in command 'ps -aux' output.
> >>
> >> Update: after running those commands, Tor was able to start. Why the
> >> delay? Is this normal?
> > 
> > It can take up to a minute or so for the tor process to close its many many
> > open sockets. 
> 
> By default Tor takes 30 seconds before it really exits, you can modify
> this "timeout" by specifying ShutdownWaitLength in your torrc.
> 
> from the manpage:
> 
> ShutdownWaitLength NUM
>               When we get a SIGINT and we’re a server, we begin shutting
> down: we close listeners and start refusing new circuits. After NUM
> seconds, we  exit.
>               If we get a second SIGINT, we exit immediately.  (Default:
> 30 seconds)

Yes, this was after the 30 second wait and tor disappearing from a list
of running processes - but thank you both anyway.
GD

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