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authorRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2012-02-02 02:31:28 -0500
committerRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2012-02-02 02:31:28 -0500
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Update "ClientOnly" man page entry
There isn't really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
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@@ -499,11 +499,12 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
number like 60. (Default: 0)
**ClientOnly** **0**|**1**::
- If set to 1, Tor will under no circumstances run as a server or serve
- directory requests. The default is to run as a client unless ORPort is
- configured. (Usually, you don't need to set this; Tor is pretty smart at
- figuring out whether you are reliable and high-bandwidth enough to be a
- useful server.) (Default: 0)
+ 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)
**ExcludeNodes** __node__,__node__,__...__::
A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address