[tor-relays] Re: Tor automatic start

[William Denton <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, December 1st, 2024 at 14:15, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So on Debain 12, is there a way to configure tor to start automatically when the os boots? Thanks.

One way is to use the @reboot time in a cron job.  If you run

   crontab -e

you can edit your list of cron jobs and add in something like

   @reboot /path/to/tor

Mine looks like this:

   SHELL=/bin/bash
   @reboot ~/conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh

The script that gets run is here:

https://github.com/wdenton/conforguration/blob/master/conforg/scripts/tor-run.sh

It sets up a tmux session with four windows: one running Tor, one tailing the log, one showing a bar chart of bandwidth use, and one a shell where I can run a report of bandwidth use.  Combined, if the machine reboots then thirty seconds after it comes back Tor is running and I can run `tmux attach` to check in on it, then or weeks later.

Bill

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William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada

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