[tor-relays] keeping tor relays operational

[Alexander Dietrich]

>From my (limited) experience, the restarts don't even show up on Globe
usually, and they don't affect the relay flags (except for HSDir). 

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On 2015-03-15 19:20, Pablo Brasero wrote: 

> Is it worth keeping nodes from restarting in these cases (ie: not often)?
> 
> When running Tor nodes, I think of my uptimes more as a vanity metric, and don't worry much about restarting machines after updates. If there's a value to running a more "high availability" node, please somebody let me know.
> 
> -- 
> Pablo Brasero
> 
> On 14 March 2015 at 12:12, Alexander Dietrich <alexander at dietrich.cx> wrote:
> On Ubuntu, "service tor reload" should also work.
> 
> There's not a lot you can do about updates that require a restart (other than to restart).
> 
> You can automate the restarts though, install "unattended-upgrades" and "update-notifier-common", then check out the config files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alexander
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> On 2015-03-14 10:47, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
> On March 14, 2015 7:46:16 AM Larry Brandt <lbrandt at cni.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Sorry if this question has been answered dozens of times before. I have
> a middle relay that has been operational since last summer. I wish to
> make some alterations to my torrc file and make these changes
> operationally active without stopping and restarting tor. Is this
> possible? I experience a bit of down time whenever I up bandwidth,
> change contact info, etc. I'm also disapointed when ubuntu sends
> updates that require a server restart. What is the best method to
> handle this on a stand-alone server? 
> You can use the -reload option after changing your torrc. The daemon
> keeps running but reloads the config file.
> 
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> 
> Sebastian Urbach
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