Folks
I am trying to set up a bitcoind + pushpoold running on an Amazon EC2. No problems on bitcoind side, but I really don't know what's happening on the pushpoold side. Compilation was smooth, but I can't manage to run it.
My config file:
{
# network ports
"listen" : [
# binary protocol (default), port 8342
{ "port" : 8342 },
# HTTP JSON-RPC protocol, port 8341
{ "port" : 8347, "protocol" : "http-json" },
# HTTP JSON-RPC protocol, port 8344,
#proxy is most likely your external ip address if your running a public pool | Public pools WON'T have the following ip addresses: (10.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.100, or 192.168.254.254,etc,etc)
# requests to us | "proxy" should be set to your ip address that people will connect through
{ "port" : 8344, "protocol" : "http-json",
"proxy" : "127.0.0.1" },
# binary protocol, localhost-only port 8338
# host is most likely your localhost address
{ "host" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 8338, "protocol" : "binary" }
],
# database settings
"database" : {
"engine" : "mysql",
"host" : "localhost",
"port" : 3306,
#database name
"name" : "pushpool",
#database username
"username" : "mysqlusername",
#database password
"password" : "mysqlpass",
#enable sharelog | to insert share data or sometimes known as "work"
"sharelog" : true,
"stmt.pwdb":"SELECT password FROM pool_worker WHERE username = ?",
"stmt.sharelog":"INSERT INTO shares (rem_host, username, our_result, upstream_result, reason, solution) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)"
},
#uncoment this when you want to use memcached (Recommended for servers over 1.5gb of ram)
# cache settings
#"memcached" : {
# "servers" : [
# { "host" : "127.0.0.1", "port" : 11211 }
# ]
#},
"pid" : "/tmp/pushpoold.pid",
# overrides local hostname detection
"forcehost" : "localhost.localdomain",
"log.requests" : "/tmp/request.log",
"log.shares" : "/tmp/shares.log",
# the server assumes longpolling (w/ SIGUSR1 called for each blk)
"longpoll.disable" : false,
# length of time to cache username/password credentials, in seconds
"auth.cred_cache.expire" : 75,
# RPC settings
#Bitcoind Protocal settings
#Host were bitcoind can be found on the network
"rpc.url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
#Username & password to connect to bitcoind
"rpc.user" : "user",
"rpc.pass" : "mypassword",
# rewrite returned 'target' to difficulty-1?
"rpc.target.rewrite" : true
}
I'm trying to run pushpoold with this command:
# pushpoold -c /usr/local/etc/pushpool.json --debug=2 -F -E
[2011-06-19 15:49:1.684078] Debug output enabled
[2011-06-19 15:49:1.684530] Forcing local hostname to localhost.localdomain
[2011-06-19 15:49:1.698690] Listening on host :: port 8342
[2011-06-19 15:49:1.698765] Listening on host :: port 8347
[2011-06-19 15:49:1.698819] Listening on host :: port 8344
[2011-06-19 15:49:1.698870] Listening on host 127.0.0.1 port 8338
Pushpoold simply quits. No messages, no further notice. This is pushpoold-0.5. I have tried a number of different branches as well as from the latest Github official sources. Same results.
Any help is much much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
In that the difficulty level is so much lower, it's a neat way to test the software without requiring tens or hundreds of gigahashes to successfully earn some coinage. I ended up opting for an alternative to blkmond since I couldn't get that working properly: 
