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ralphwetzel / theonionbox

Dashboard to monitor Tor node operations
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Tell users to use 'nohup theonionbox &' to continuously run theonionbox #48

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Hello, I have discovered that the documentation for this project 'theonionbox' is missing instructions on how users can continuously run theonionbox even after leaving (closing) the SSH session/Console window.

After a bit of digging around, the command 'nohup theonionbox &' works. The command 'nohup', when appended in front of the startup command 'theonionbox' with a '&' at the end tells the program to ignore additional input and push all output messages from theonionbox to a file called 'nohup.out'. The nohup command seems to work well with theonionbox, and I am able to see the output startup messages when I open the 'nohup.out' file created in the same directory as theonionbox.

Can the 'nohup theonionbox &' command be added to the documentation? More info about nohup command: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup

nohup-out

Besides this, the documentation for this project is awesome and I was able to get theonionbox running with no issues 👍

ralphwetzel commented 6 years ago

While your proposal might be suitable to keep your Box running after closing the session, it won't restart after a reboot of your system - thus requiring operator action to bring it up again.

The preferred way to get what you want therefore goes via launching & running The Onion Box as a service (as well called daemon). There is a whole chapter of the documentation dedicated to this topic.

Hope this helps!