dynamically changable options in torrc?

Tue Jan 31 08:30:26 UTC 2006

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:29:20PM -0500, Josh wrote:
> Is there a list of what options may be changed without restarting
> the tor process? (i.e., change and kill -HUP <torpid>)

See options_transition_allowed() in
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/src/or/config.c

Currently everything is allowed to change except PidFile, RunAsDaemon,
DataDirectory, User, Group, and HardwareAccel.

Note that there's a bug in 0.1.1.12-alpha that makes your Tor crash
when you enable ORPort -- this is fixed in CVS.

> By experimentation, I've discoverd that the various bandwidth
> limiting options are changable.  How about hidden services?

Sure. For lots more details, see section 3.1 and the end of 3.3 in
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/doc/control-spec.txt
and also
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/control/doc/howto.txt

--Roger