From: Nick Mathewson Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:35:52 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Clarify ClientOnly documentation X-Git-Tag: tor-0.2.5.3-alpha~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9991c5f00135c70021997945251b52df02ae562f;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git Clarify ClientOnly documentation The option is unneeded, not meaningless, so explain what it does. Patch from Matt Pagan; fixes 9059. --- diff --git a/changes/bug9059 b/changes/bug9059 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9872a5959b --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug9059 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ + o Documentation: + - Provide a more accurate description of the ClientOnly config + option on the man page. Resolves bug 9059. diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index c49692c69d..e4679bf3fc 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -702,12 +702,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if number like 60. (Default: 0) [[ClientOnly]] **ClientOnly** **0**|**1**:: - If set to 1, Tor will under no circumstances run as a relay or serve - directory requests. This config option is mostly meaningless: we - added it back when we were considering having Tor clients auto-promote - themselves to being relays if they were stable and fast enough. The - current behavior is simply that Tor is a client unless ORPort or - DirPort are configured. (Default: 0) + If set to 1, Tor will not run as a relay or serve + directory requests, even if the ORPort, ExtORPort, or DirPort options are + set. (This config option is + mostly unnecessary: we added it back when we were considering having + Tor clients auto-promote themselves to being relays if they were stable + and fast enough. The current behavior is simply that Tor is a client + unless ORPort, ExtORPort, or DirPort are configured.) (Default: 0) [[ExcludeNodes]] **ExcludeNodes** __node__,__node__,__...__:: A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address