[tor-relays] Re: Programmatically determine if a relay is hibernating

[excurso via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Watch in the log for this message:

[notice] Delaying directory fetches: We are hibernating or shutting down.




Regards,
excurso

    forest-relay-contact--- wrote via tor-relays:
> Hello.
>       
>       What is the authoritative way to determine if a relay is
>       hibernating? I
>       would have thought that using the control socket would be best,
>       but Tor
>       seems to unlink it when it enters hibernation, so Stem does not
>       work.
>       
>       There's a possible heuristic by checking if /run/tor/tor.pid
>       exists when
>       /run/tor/control does not, but that's fragile because it assumes
>       that
>       the control socket is even enabled. Parsing the logs is doable,
>       but also
>       quite fragile. And I could certainly parse /var/lib/tor/state, but
>       its
>       format is surely subject to change at any time.
>       
>       How do I correctly determine whether a Tor process is in
>       hibernation?
>       
>       Regards,
>       forest
>     
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