OSX - Manual Restart?

[Joel Franusic]

I've seen the behavior that numE describes. However you do not need to
press ctrl-c to get a prompt back. I normally just hit the space bar
to get my prompt back.

On 12/31/05, numE <numE at onionizer.de> wrote:
> hmm.
>
> obviously tor is running.. even though i had to brake it up with ctrl-c ?!
> the startup script seems to bring it in background on its own....
> perhaps there should be a slight change, so that the user dont has to
> press "ctrl-c"
> on its own to get his prompt back, because he could thing that he broke
> up the process :-)
>
>
> numE schrieb:
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> >
> >> >how may i manually restart tor & privoxy on osx?
> >>
> >> >i tried:
> >> >sudo /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor restart
> >>
> >> >this works, but then it is no background process....
> >>
> >>
> >
> > >>>Hm! There may be a bug here.  I'll look into it. In the meantime, I'd
> > >>>suggest you do a separate "start" and "stop" step.
> >
> >
> >
> > srv-01:~ admin$ sudo /Library/StartupItems/Tor/Tor start
> > Starting Tor Service
> > srv-01:~ admin$ Dec 31 10:12:39.757 [notice] Tor v0.1.1.10-alpha. This
> > is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity.
> > Dec 31 10:12:39.784 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using
> > method poll. Good.
> > Dec 31 10:12:39.785 [notice] connection_create_listener(): Opening Socks
> > listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
> > ---
> > CTRL-C
> > ---
> > srv-01:~ admin$
> >
> >
> > same problem :-)
> > process does not go into background.
> >
> > greetings,
> >
> > numE
> >
> > p.s. Wishing you all the best in 2006!
> >
>
>