Re: [tor-relays] Memory Problems with tor releay - restart tor automatically after failure

[Roman Mamedov <rm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 May 2017 08:54:00 +0000
nusenu <nusenu-lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I noticed your comment [1] about your plans to write a script that
> restarts tor should it get killed.
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that if you have plans to upgrade to
> Ubuntu 16.04 you will get this out of the box due to systemd Restart=
> [2] service configuration.
> 
> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22255#comment:23
> [2]
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/debian/tor.git/tree/debian/systemd/tor@.service#n20
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#Restart=

Or you can just put

   /etc/init.d/tor start | grep -v "already running"

into your crontab at every 5 minutes or similar. If Tor is already running,
this will not do anything, i.e. won't launch a duplicate or anything of that
sort. And in case it crashed, you will get an E-Mail automatically (assuming
you set up your crontab MAILTO= and system's MTA properly) telling you that it
has been started (again), letting you to keep assessing frequency of the issue.

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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