Maximum MyFamilies?

Support Relay Operator
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Is there a maximum amount of entries in the MyFamily directive in the /etc/tor/torrc?
I got up to about 18 on the 19th server deploy, Tor would not start.
I did check for any formatting issues, but to no avail. I guess it is not really that important, but I was just wondering :slight_smile:

MyFamily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IMO no spaces in the string pls.
The maximum is somewhere around 360 IIUC.

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we all need spaces, sir!!
lol…joking, thank you
One thing that sucks is that everytime I spin up a node, I have to go back and edit all of the past ones (and restart that node). Kind of a sucky thing.

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Consider to automate it, e.g. in Ansible look here [1]

[1] tor-relays/playbooks/roles/setup_tor/vars/main.yaml at main · toralf/tor-relays · GitHub

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You don’t need to restart the node after you update the family, is enough to reload the config

systemctl reload tor@default

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