diff --git a/scripts/sh/check_tor.sh b/scripts/sh/check_tor.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Query tor node
+# Designed to be run with multi.sh
+
+version_check() {
+        if [ -f "$PKGBINARY" ]; then
+                echo "Packaged version:"
+                $PKGBINARY --version
+        else
+                echo "No packaged version."
+        fi
+        if [ -f "$SRCBINARY" ]; then
+                echo "Source version:"
+                $SRCBINARY --version
+        else
+                echo "No source version."
+        fi
+
+}
+
+run_check_linux() {
+        # to-do: check if Sytemd or SysV-Init and behave accordingly
+        systemctl is-active tor
+}
+
+run_check_bsd() {
+        if [ -f "$RCSCRIPT" ]; then
+                $RCSCRIPT status
+        else
+                ps aux |grep tor
+        fi
+}
+
+echo "Found in PATH: `command -v tor`"
+
+case `uname` in
+        'Linux' )
+                PKGBINARY="/usr/bin/tor"
+                SRCBINARY="/usr/local/bin/tor"
+                version_check
+                run_check_linux
+        ;;
+        'NetBSD' )
+                PKGBINARY="/usr/pkg/bin/tor"
+                SRCBINARY="/usr/local/bin/tor"
+                RCSCRIPT="/etc/rc.d/tor"
+                version_check
+                run_check_bsd
+        ;;
+esac