Hi guys....
Completely new to coin mining and figured I'd start with this tutorial. So first up, thanks a million for posting this how-to and it's gotten me most of the way there.
So I'm ssh'd into my instance and the first issue I have is editing the crontab to change the minerd entry. Can someone please tell me how to do that? I've done crontab -e and I can see an entry but cannot edit.
From there I thought I would try just running the command on this blog page:
http://blog.kvvs.nl/?p=239/./minerd -a X11 -o stratum+tcp://drk.lotterymining.com:4444 -u username.worker -p password
And changed the username, worker name and password as shown on the drk.lotterymining dashboard.
The message I'm getting back is
-bash: !mas: event not found
If anyone can point me in the correct direction it would be much appreciated.
I'm relatively new to using cloud-based servers, and I finally figured out how to launch a miner on start. This is probably not a great discovery , but it was the culmination of about 2 hours of instance launching frustration:
I use this simple script to launch an instance:
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/ubuntu
./ev.sh
obviously use whatever you like in place of ev.sh. I run a failover script, but I assume you can run minerd directly if you wanted to use the community AMI.
1. On Step three of the instance launch, go to the bottom of the page and expand "Advanced Details"
2. Type or paste your code into the User Data box and leave the first button (Send as text) checked.
That's it! It took me a while to figure out that amazon instances log you in a "ubuntu" (a user with root-like access), but runs the start script AS root. This means, apparently, that ~./ev.sh doesn't go to the /home/ubuntu directory. This might be why I can't get crontab to work, either, but once I got it to work like this, I left it alone
