Re: documentation/behavior unclear of (tor-hidden-service)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:

> moving on, this could be improved:
> In case one aims for keeping the config public this is a bad idea but
> what about creating the hostname + private_key in $name as plain-file?
> Would this be overwritten by (tor-hidden-service) or would this just be
> bad practice but "whatever works for you"?

Tor is stateful here: it creates the
/var/lib/tor/hidden-services/SERVICE directory once, and then never
touches it again.

Do you think our documentation should be improved?  Could you suggest a
patch that improves things, while at the same time not paraphrasing too
much of Tor’s own documentation?

Thanks,
Ludo’.