tor-ctrl-onion: read PKs from directory or file and set the services up

[nyxnor]

this would facilitate a lot, you only specify the directory of the file that contains the onion services pk and it will be activated, so no need to copy contents to the command line and also facilitates if you want to setup a lot of services on the controller.

[nyxnor]

not only pk, ports and flags also need to be read.
This will come with --permanent option.

[adrelanos]

That would be to simplify the setup of onions?

If I understand this right, yeah, pointing a command line tool to a backup directory seems great for usability. A lot simpler than manual copying of contents to the right directly and fixing access rights.

[nyxnor]

That would be to simplify the setup of onions?

Yes!!

If I understand this right, yeah, pointing a command line tool to a backup directory seems great for usability. A lot simpler than manual copying of contents to the right directly and fixing access rights.

Sometimes we just see the problem after the pain.

[nyxnor]

This is complete and I am satisfied.
Normal usage to save or restore.

Make the service permanent, block DiscardPK flag, specify all other parameters as usual:

tor-ctrl-onion -A -l 80 -P ~/some_dir

Restore all onions from a directory:

tor-ctrl-onion -A -E ~/some_dir

Restore only one onion of contained in a file:

tor-ctrl-onion -A -E ~/some_dir/some_file

E for restore because R was taken. So think of Establish.