Mr. Blue writes: > Problem 1: > > I start Tor by simply typing "tor" in command line(FreeBSD 6.x). When I tried > to stop it by SIGNALS form Tor man pages none of them worked. > Obviously SIGNALS are not ment to be passed to Tor through command line(This > MUST be in a man but it ISN'T!), while options with theirs values ARE ok if > passed to Tor through command line. > > So let's firstly solve this - How to start and stop Tor through command line? > After that I will pas question 2.
"SIGNALS" standardly refers to the Unix signals mechanism; see the man page for signal(2). The command-line program to send a signal to a process is called kill; see the man page for kill(1): NAME kill - send a signal to a process By using the kill program on the command line, you can generate the signals described in the SIGNALS section of the Tor man pages. It's probably also possible to generate signals from within a PHP script using an appropriate library function. It looks like the function to use would be posix_kill(). http://phpbuilder.com/manual/en/function.posix-kill.php The effects of posix_kill will be equivalent to the effects of using kill from the command line. -- Seth Schoen Staff Technologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ 454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 1 415 436 9333 x107