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[tor-bugs] #16454 [Chutney]: chutney's "tor does not support this option" is unclear
#16454: chutney's "tor does not support this option" is unclear
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Reporter: teor | Owner: nickm
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Chutney | Version:
Keywords: | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
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A user emailed me concerned that chutney was giving a lot of "tor does not
support this option" errors.
These messages could be much clearer:
* The message is a warning, not an error
* The message doesn't describe the likely consequences. We could document
these, at least for the 3 `TestingDirAuthVote*` options
I also wrote back to them:
{{{
This is a warning that happens when you have an older version of tor. It
is telling you that your version of tor doesn't support one of the options
used in the standard chutney torrc templates. Chutney warns you, but
disables the option so that tor will still run.
This particular option is used to speed up the authorities' votes for
hidden service directories. If you are running a chutney network with a
hidden service, you can speed up bootstrap by using tor 0.2.6.9 or tor
0.2.7-alpha.
If you're not using hidden services, you can disregard this warning.
Thank you for letting me know, I will log a task to update the
documentation to make it clearer that this is a warning, and explain the
likely consequence.
}}}
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16454>
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