Re: Tor 0.1.0.5-rc is out

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 08:22:05AM -0500, Philip Cheney wrote:
> A quick question...  Is it necessary to ask to reboot after 
> installation completes on MacOS?  Shutting down tor via the startup 
> scripts before the install then restarting after seems to do the trick. 
>   I admit I'm new to Mac OS, but I'm not what would be requiring a 
> reboot.  I'm coming from a Linux background, so I'm a little bothered 
> about having to reboot so much.

Tor doesn't need the reboot; it's the privoxy installer that asks for it.
(The privoxy installer is bundled with the Tor installer.)

I don't run os x, but I imagine if you're getting it to work without the
reboot, then there's no need to reboot. :)

> My semester is coming to an end in the next few weeks, so I'll 
> certainly get working on the kernel panic issue soon.  I've alerted 
> Apple to the issue, but haven't heard back from them, yet.

Great. Sorry for the trouble.

--Roger