Arm

Arm (anonymizing relay monitor) is an open source and free command-line application that provides a terminal status monitor for the Tor project.

Arm is intended for command-line enthusiast, SSH connections, and anyone else that uses a TTY terminal to monitor stuff. It can be easily compared with the top command-line program for monitoring system usage.

The software provides real time statistics for bandwidth, CPU, memory usage, relay's current configuration, logged events, and connection details, such as IP, fingerprint, hostname, and consensus data.

Arm is a platform-independent application that supports Linux (Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Slackware), as well as FreeBSD.

What is new in this release:

• fix: unrecognized authentication methods (like 'SAFECOOKIE') would make arm crash (caught by E)
• fix: providing users a log message when DisableDebuggerAttachment breaks us
• fix: crashing issue when parsing tor log entries from leap years (fix by Sebastian, ticket)
• fix: major terminal glitches related to the import of the readline module (caught by Stephan Seitz)
• fix: adding OSX (and probably BSD) support for pwd lookups (thanks to Sebastian, ticket)
• fix: unnecessary validation warnings for DirReqStatistics with new tor versions (caught by Sebastian, ticket)
• fix: better validation for path component of circuit-staus output (ticket)
• fix: checking that the auth cookie is 32 bytes before reading (caught by rransom, ticket)
• fix: tor process detection on Mac/FreeBSD/OpenBSD broken due to different variant of ps (caught thanks to a test system from Jordi Espasa Clofent)
• fix: using only lsof for OpenBSD connection queries (caught thanks to a test system from Jordi Espasa Clofent)
• fix: torrc validation was case sensitive (caught by koolfy, thanks to help from Runa, ticket)
• fix: torrc validation warned of special deb Logging default (caught by koolfy, thanks to help from Sebastian and Runa, ticket)
• fix: snapshot handler had buggy path handling (caught by Jeff Bonner, ticket)
• fix: specifying python version requirement in rpm dependencies (caught by unSpawn, thanks to help from Juan Orti Alcaine)
• fix: proc utils didn't account for big-endian architectures (caught by swalker, ticket)
• fix: 'enter' on the connection page was mislabeled (patch by twilde, ticket)
• fix: reproduced an ACS failure, noting it in the README and adding a config option to partly work around it (thanks to help from rransom)
• fix: circuit listing would fail to be updated if connection information was unavailable
• fix: errors in checking the auth cookie size prevented alternate authentication methods from being attempted