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I am running tor as a daemon on a Ubuntu server. I want to periodically and automatically refresh the identity I am using in order to get a new exit node.

The only way I've found to do this is to restart the tor service, but this is not a viable option as it results in downtime for the tor service. Is there a way of doing this with a configuration setting?

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The following command refreshes the IP without any service downtime:

killall -HUP tor

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  • N.B. there is no guarantee that SIGHUP will result in new circuits (although as it is currently implemented it does) and doesn't do half of what New Identity does.
    – cacahuatl
    Oct 17, 2018 at 21:21
  • What does new identity do that SIGHUP doesn't?
    – PetaPetaPeta
    Oct 22, 2018 at 7:39

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