No. I have no other processes running on the vps. The OS Debian Linux is running the newest version, it seems something is causing the tor process to get hung up once a month. Will take a look at that, thanks. --Keifer
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:04 AM Tor Manager <t...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > On Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 4:48:47 AM UTC-4 Keifer Bly wrote: > >> I am wondering, is there a way configure tor (via the torrc file) to >> restart automatically once a month? Thank you. >> > > Before you implement a time-based service restart, you may wish to check > that your OS and hardware (eg. firmware) are as up to date as you can > reasonably make them. It strikes me as odd that you would have that > instability that would require such a service restart. Do you have other > services running? Are you running any sort of system monitoring that would > tell you about issues with RAM or persistent storage? > > With that said, I have used monit[0] in the past to bring services back up > when a test fails, though never tor. Note that my go-to if I were going to > implement monit would be to have a service check, and not restart on a time > basis, but rather on a threshold or reachability basis. Eg. if you were > going to use monit with a webapp, Id suggest you have a page in the style > of https://example.org/webapp/monit-check/ that must load the app > runtime, and then have monit restart everything involved in the app if that > page load takes more than 15 seconds. In your case that might look like > installing nyx[1] and having a wrapper script that checks with nyx and has > a non-zero exit you can have monit act on. > > Cheers, > -- > ibiblio Tor Manager > > [0] https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html > [1] https://nyx.torproject.org/ > >
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