[tor-relays] Relay uptime after restarting Tor service

2016-10-07 Thread Zac
Hi, I run this relay: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/02928855BFAD787F8B363F21860D1E7D156E0655 and noticed that my uptime on Atlas is reset to zero when I need to restart the service, i.e. for updates or configuration changes. Is this expected behaviour, or should the uptime in fact be un

Re: [tor-relays] Tor and CIA leak

2017-03-08 Thread Zac
A quick grep returns nothing for riseup: $ time grep -r -i riseup ./* grep --color=auto --exclude-dir={.bzr,CVS,.git,.hg,.svn} -r -i riseup ./* 3.16s user 0.63s system 99% cpu 3.792 total It's harder to search for Tor since there is a brief description in the footer of every html page. I haven't

Re: [tor-relays] killall -hup command

2018-07-03 Thread Zac
The 'kill' commands send various signals to processes, as defined in signals.h (see https://linux.die.net/man/7/signal). -hup sends SIGHUP to the process(es), short for hangup. This historically was for when a serial connection was dropped, and the process needed to close / take action according

Re: [tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays

2012-07-29 Thread Zac Lym
This seems (to me) like an obvious suggestion, so my apologies if it's already been thought up. Why not establish a team/scoreboard system, like those used for distributed computing and BitCoin mining? This elegantly solves a few problems while with minimal resource commitment from the Tor organi