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Commit 9991c5f0 authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson :game_die:
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Clarify ClientOnly documentation

The option is unneeded, not meaningless, so explain what it does.

Patch from Matt Pagan; fixes 9059.
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o Documentation:
- Provide a more accurate description of the ClientOnly config
option on the man page. Resolves bug 9059.
......@@ -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
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