Topic: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go. - page 59. (Read 285117 times)

My solution to the headless operation was to set a watchdog that can reboot the server if shares stop coming in.  In my experience, when shares stop coming in, the problem is that the box is locked up solid, beyond the help of SSH.

Once you get booted up and logged into the X session you can execute 'xhost +' which will disable access control. You can also do 'xhost +192.168.1.xxx' to give access to a single IP address.

Then when you ssh to the machine remotely you need to ensure you set your environment variable for X before running the 'aticonfig' tool. So;

ssh -l user linuxcoin-host

user@linuxcoin:~$ export DISPLAY=:0
user@linuxcoin:~$ while true; do for n in 5 4 3 2 1 0; do aticonfig --odgt --adapter=$n | grep Sensor; done; echo; sleep 3; done

            Sensor 0: Temperature - 85.50 C
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 88.50 C
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 80.50 C
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 82.50 C
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 75.00 C
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 82.00 C


You can also start and stop the mining application remotely. If you want to use screen to run mining sessions on remote virtual terminals; easy just install it. You of course will need to repeat this is you reboot.

user@linuxcoin:~$ sudo /bin/bash
root@linuxcoin:/home/user# apt-get install screen

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  screen
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 624 kB of archives.
After this operation, 975 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main screen amd64 4.0.3-14 [624 kB]
Fetched 624 kB in 5s (119 kB/s) 
Selecting previously deselected package screen.
(Reading database ... 69169 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking screen (from .../screen_4.0.3-14_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Setting up screen (4.0.3-14) ...

*Sigh* I cant help thinking of somebody trying to control a nuclear power plant, with a Fisher Price activity table.


Oh well, nevermind. Firstly you'll need either an internet conection each end, or 50 km of network cable. If you are happy to just use a command line for basic control, then you could just telnet to the machine using any old terminal emulator on Fish... er windoze. Otherwise just use a VNC client / server. I haven't installed Linuxcoin yet, so I dont know what VNC software it comes packaged with, but it should have a software installer like synaptic, which makes installing almost anything a piece of cake. Just type VNC into its search window and look for a server on the linux end then install a client on the windows machine and just follow the instructions in the help/documentation for each of them. The VNC will give you full desktop access once you have it working.

Good luck with that.

Had the:
[Errno 13] Permission denied

CHMODed the miners directory and worked ok.
I guess I should find a better solution...

Wow I need some help... right now im trying to connect to the internet, but I dont have a lan port in the upstairs of my house, all computers are wireless. I bought a wifi adapter for this rig, the tp-link TL-WN722N. Its supposedly incorporated into the linux kernel, and most posts IVe seen says it works right off when they plug it in. It doesnt work with linuxcoin however. Is there something I need to install, or ? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks

hey,

I'm expecting my rig hardware any minute now and want to prepare the OS in the meantime. The rig should run on a simple old 200 MB IDE hard drive. So no, I have no usb drive. How can I install the iso on the hard drive and be bootable? Just unpacking the files won't work, i guess....

Is it anyway a good idea in this scenario to use LinuxCoin? I heard that it is hardly modifyable and has to be reconfigured on reboot (sounds like a myth to me).

bye
mineority

Can someone please tell me how i can remote control my machine? Not a step by step thing (unless you want it  ) but tell me where to go and start so i can control this 50km away on my windows machine.

The rest is working 100% ok and I'm mining having zero problems. I just need some help starting the remote control thing. I have read a lot but the truth is I'm not a Linux expert and i got kinda confused on this particular part even reading past posts 

Thank you

But have you tried doing it on one machine via local access? If you can do it locally, might be easier to install manually on all three, or even better just clone the one that works and copy to 2 other flash drives. You can than manage them by remote.

I just need someone to show me how to do it I plan to do this across 3 different machines but I can't even get it on the 1 machine.

+1

Wouldn't it be easier to do a full install if you don't have local access to the machine?

Ready to tip someone .5 btc if they show me how to do persistent storage with linux coin over remote admin.

Frusterated x.x; PM if interested.

Great work, I put some ram on a MB, plugged a CPU in, a VideoCard and a thumbdrive with your sweet sweet LinuxCoin and *bam* mining in under 10 minutes.

Suggestionss:

 - Anything to make this more headless: Start / stop mining over SSH, see status.  ( I use ssh from my Android and would be able to monitor this stuff from the road)
 - Rename this to something sweeter like Coinux or something :p
 

Anyway, once my coins start coming in I'll be donating.

This version is totally usable. He made it to be lightweight and have low power
consumption, and that's exactly what it does. Plus, you have to remember that
right now it's in alpha. I can't wait for the final version (Hopefully Soon ).

Using anything other than a usb flash drive is a waste of power and resources
for a mining rig (hdd=more power, cd=more power).

On a side note, I had my flash drive ready with Linuxcoin. My motherboard, My
power supply and 3 video cards showed up on my front doorstep and all of it
was up and mining inside of 20 minutes.

Linuxcoin on a usb drive rocks, Just my 2 BitCents

There's better guides for installing on Ubuntu/Xubuntu HDD.
Being forced to use usb flash makes this version currently unusable.

First, Thank you for a very well put together distro for mining! This saved me loads of time, and it was very helpful.

I now want to address the problem of the "FATAL kernel error: Failed to load OpenCL kernel!" message, I confirmed this as I was testing. Even if I accept the agreement and it says it registered it does NOT register. I have to manually register the agreement every time and its very annoying, I hope it can be fixed next update.

Other then that, I would like to suggest that you ask if you want to save the settings when starting a miner from your start_mining script.... with possible of a few setting slots (menu maybe?) ... being able to make the start scripts and access them easily would make it so easy to deploy miners, and easily editable for more advanced users.

This was addressed, but I wanted to reiterate ... Please disable the screen saver; Right now I am forced to use a USB stick as I want to install these on a hard drive, please make a guide.

Thanks again.

You're running 5770's? Have you tried running the 2.1 SDK?

two linuxcoin machines

One with two XFX 5830 - no issues
One with XFX 6970, and 6870 - no issues

both on USB stick, persistance...

Would be nice to note somewhere that this is an x86-64 build. Terrible surprise after trying to boot it up on one of my older machines.

Thanks for the effort though!

Hey, can anyone help me?

If i put two sapphire 5830s into my rig, i can hash on both cards with hashkill (not tried phoenix) and it looks like both cards are working.

But one does not change the fanspeed and becomes slower, aticonfig shows me both cards. but amd overdrive ctl and anticonfig won't change the fanspeed of the second card (the one without the monitor).
While setting the fanspeed it throws out ati_pplib_cmd: "set" failed

Don't tell me, that i need a VGA Win Dummy

Actually i will try that EDIT: FAILED


Also i have my persisten first rig set up, works fine, it has 5870s though, if i boot it up under 1 5830 it runs fine, with 2 5830 it gives me mostly a black screen and a white gibberish block as a mouse.  non persistent it starts fine...

Its not the cards, I interchanged it with others (shipment alarm

thank you, and let the rally never end