I've written a wiki article about bitcoind here: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=headless_client.
I suggest you read through the getting started article here: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_started
Topic: How-to for running Bitcoin on Linux sans GUI? (Read 12134 times)
Ah. Got it. Thank you, asdfman.
In case it's not obvious, it's been over ten years since I worked much with Unix.
In case it's not obvious, it's been over ten years since I worked much with Unix.
it automatically "hides" any directory prefixed with "." so doing a ls wont show.. to make it show do a ls -a ~
then you will see .bitcoin
just do a ls -latr ~/.bitcoin to see the other files in the dir
then you will see .bitcoin
just do a ls -latr ~/.bitcoin to see the other files in the dir
Thanks again, theymos.
I found /home/[me]/.bitcoin/debug.log -- sort of, anyway (using find, I mean -- more below).
... tells me that I'm running at 2,470 khash/s. I'm happy with that.
I'm still confused, however. When I navigate to /home/[me], I see no /.bitcoin there via ls. I've obviously forgotten what little I ever knew re bash scripting. How do I find where debug.log (and wallet.dat !!!) are actually (hatever that means) located
I found /home/[me]/.bitcoin/debug.log -- sort of, anyway (using find, I mean -- more below).
Code:
grep -i hashmeter /home/[me]/.bitcoin/debug.log
... tells me that I'm running at 2,470 khash/s. I'm happy with that.
I'm still confused, however. When I navigate to /home/[me], I see no /.bitcoin there via ls. I've obviously forgotten what little I ever knew re bash scripting. How do I find where debug.log (and wallet.dat !!!) are actually (hatever that means) located
It's in your datadir -- the same location as wallet.dat. You can specify datadir as a parameter: "bitcoind -datadir=/whatever", but I think it's probably used some default location.
Thank you, theymos.
Unfortunately, I can't find debug.log
Perhaps I haven't actually installed Bitcoin. I'm just running bitcoind from /bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64.
Perhaps bitcoind isn't writing debug.log because /etc/bitcoin/ doesn't exist
Should I make /etc/bitcoin/ and copy the contents of /bitcoin-0.3.0/ there
Unfortunately, I can't find debug.log
Perhaps I haven't actually installed Bitcoin. I'm just running bitcoind from /bitcoin-0.3.0/bin/64.
Perhaps bitcoind isn't writing debug.log because /etc/bitcoin/ doesn't exist
Should I make /etc/bitcoin/ and copy the contents of /bitcoin-0.3.0/ there
Search debug.log for "hashmeter".
Thank you, sirius-m.
So far, I've mastered ...
How do I get khash/s I didn't see that in the wiki.
Do I calculate it from difficulty? I vaguely recall seeing that, but not where.
So far, I've mastered ...
Code:
./bitcoind
./bitcoind getinfo
./bitcoind setgenerate true
./bitcoind getinfo
./bitcoind setgenerate true
How do I get khash/s
I didn't see that in the wiki.Do I calculate it from difficulty? I vaguely recall seeing that, but not where.
I've installed Bitcoin 0.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64. Is there how-to for interacting with Bitcoin via tty? Although I've found some info, it looks more like programming API than command line.
The API commands listed in the wiki can be used from the command line also, like this:
Code:
./bitcoind
./bitcoind getinfo
./bitcoind getinfo
Bitcoind is the headless daemon binary supplied with the download packages.
I've installed Bitcoin 0.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64. Is there how-to for interacting with Bitcoin via tty? Although I've found some info, it looks more like programming API than command line.
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