I just made a minor change to my torrc, and sent a hup (reload) to the server
Mar 12 16:56:27 stbmac Tor[8276]: Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.\n Mar 12 16:56:27 stbmac Tor[8276]: Failed to parse/validate config: SocksPort, TransPort, NatdPort, and ORPort are all undefined? Quitting.\n Mar 12 16:56:27 stbmac Tor[8276]: Reading config failed--see warnings above. For usage, try -h.\n Mar 12 16:56:27 stbmac Tor[8276]: Restart failed (config error?). Exiting.\n In my case: I have a separate tor client providing SocksPort, and a server providing ORPort. I needed to start shutting down, while being used, so I edited out ORPort on the server config, and reloaded it. The result? 1, An invalid config file isn't "ignored" -- it causes a crash. Probably bad. 2. A valid config file that doesn't allow new connections is considered invalid. Definitely bad. This is with rc-9.
