Re: [tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-19 Thread Michael Brodhead
You pretty much need language support to make that work. Erlang has had in-process upgrade capability for ages. I'm not aware of another language which does it. Functional languages have an advantage since the top-level loop is typically a function calling itself. --mkb > On Jul 19, 2018, at

Re: [tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-19 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:01:36 +, Matt Traudt wrote: ... > No. You have to restart the process, thus the relay. (Can you update any > other program without restarting it entirely? Wasn't exactly a feature but under SunOS/Solaris when you ran a program from an NFS mount, and recompiled it, the co

Re: [tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-18 Thread nusenu
Keifer Bly: > Is there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely > restarting the relay? the answer is easy and short: no -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-18 Thread Matt Traudt
On 7/18/18 14:58, Keifer Bly wrote: > Hello, > > > So recently I upgraded from tor 0.3.3.8 to tor 0.3.3.9, and used the > killall -HUP command to restart the relay. However this did nothing,  > the relay consensus says I am still running tor 0.3.3.8 days later. Is > there a way I can cause the up

[tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-18 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So recently I upgraded from tor 0.3.3.8 to tor 0.3.3.9, and used the killall -HUP command to restart the relay. However this did nothing,  the relay consensus says I am still running tor 0.3.3.8 days later. Is there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely restarting