Hi, in a very weird edge case a controller issuing a saveconf request can terminate Tor. I just reproed this with... Tor v0.2.3.1-alpha-dev (git-e6980faec43504ac) Repro steps: 1. Start tor with an open control port 2. Chown the torrc to root so the tor user lacks read/write permissions 3. Issue a SAVECONF request 4. Tor crashes with... May 10 18:25:39.000 [warn] Could not open "/home/atagar/.tor/torrc": Permission denied Segmentation fault The permissions on the torrc during the crash... -rw------- 1 root atagar 274 2011-05-10 10:01 .tor/torrc Here's the quick method for issuing the saveconf request via torctl: ``` >>> from TorCtl import TorCtl >>> conn = TorCtl.connect() >>> conn.sendAndRecv("SAVECONF\r\n") ``` Cheers! -Damian