On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:34:11PM +0200, ssc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I just realized that there is an even simpler solution to that. > just run the following command with ksh (or bash): > until tor;do true;done Watch out! In the past, people doing things like this have wound up hosing the Tor network pretty badly: Suppose that, for some reason, your configuration becomes broken or your software becomes obsolete. Suppose that this brokenness or obsolescence is only apparent after your software has connected to another Tor server. If this happens, then the tight loop you give above will create a tool that hammers the Tor network in a tight loop---and hopefully, that's not what you intended. (One case that comes to mind: somebody was doing the above with an obsolete version of Tor. But when Tor realized it was obsolete, it downloaded a directory to make sure it was *really* obsolete before shutting down. Ouch! The directory servers were overloaded. To solve it, we had to block the badly-behaved servers, and make newer versions of the code download directories slightly less enthusiastically.) -- Nick Mathewson
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