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Re: [tor-relays] Tor automatic restart

Hi,
I don't see the problem in being How to automatically restart Tor. The base problem is, why do you need to restart it regularly or at every x period?
I mean, I only restart my Tor when I apply updates to Tor or to the operating system, etc. -- otherwise it works fine. If something hangs your Tor process and you need to restart it, you have to determine the cause of that.
What OS and which version, hardware and setup (bare metal, virtual machine) do you use? 
What are the system resources (CPU,RAM,HDD/SSD,Bandwidth)?
How did you install Tor? Package manager or other method?
What is your soft and hard max open files limit?


Keifer Bly wrote:
No. I have no other processes running on the vps. The OS Debian Linux is running the newest version, it seems something is causing the tor process to get hung up once a month. Will take a look at that, thanks. 
--Keifer
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:04 AM Tor Manager <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tor@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    On Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 4:48:47 AM UTC-4 Keifer Bly wrote:

        I am wondering, is there a way configure tor (via the torrc
        file) to restart automatically once a month? Thank you.


    Before you implement a time-based service restart, you may wish to
    check that your OS and hardware (eg. firmware) are as up to date as
    you can reasonably make them. It strikes me as odd that you would
    have that instability that would require such a service restart. Do
    you have other services running? Are you running any sort of system
    monitoring that would tell you about issues with RAM or persistent
    storage?

    With that said, I have used monit[0] in the past to bring services
    back up when a test fails, though never tor. Note that my go-to if I
    were going to implement monit would be to have a service check, and
    not restart on a time basis, but rather on a threshold or
    reachability basis. Eg. if you were going to use monit with a
    webapp, Id suggest you have a page in the style of
    https://example.org/webapp/monit-check/
    <https://example.org/webapp/monit-check/> that must load the app
    runtime, and then have monit restart everything involved in the app
    if that page load takes more than 15 seconds. In your case that
    might look like installing nyx[1] and having a wrapper script that
    checks with nyx and has a non-zero exit you can have monit act on.

    Cheers,
    --
    ibiblio Tor Manager

    [0] https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html
    <https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html>
    [1] https://nyx.torproject.org/ <https://nyx.torproject.org/>

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